Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.7.28 released

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:28:32 +0100, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>
wrote:
> On 29/03/10 12:58, Ivan Frade wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Hi,
>
> > Currently the relation extractor <-> mime type is hardcoded _inside_
the
> > extractor module code. It could be very convenient to have it in an
> > external file (one per extractor, one for all extractors... not sure
> > which one is the best option).
> >
> > An example of why is it a problem right now: our gstreamer extractor
> > works fine for "application/ogg" files, but it won't process them
> > because the mimetype is not included in the code. If somebody wants to
> > add that mimetype they are forced to a) recompile b) copy/paste a new
> > extractor modifying the mimetype.
>
> This is a good point. I would love to do two things here:
>
> 1. Have the precedence order for extractors (done in tracker-extract.c) 
> perhaps in the config? (to allow some extractors to override others)
If every extractor has a desktop file, then we can either add a key in the
desktop file, or name them like N-myextractor.desktop where N is a number.

> 2. Some solution for dynamic mime-type configuration per extractor as 
> Ivan says.
>
> > Please take this into consideration before the 0.8 release.
>
> We should try to get this in if we can. I can see this as a potential 
> problem otherwise. I know that with 0.6 this area is a mess and we 
> really can do more here before the release I think.