Re: [Tracker] chm mime type

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 21/03/11 08:26, ivan frade nokia com wrote:
> Hi Rusi,

Hi,

> Fairly easy. You need to implement a extractor module for that
> mimetype. It means to implement a couple of mandatory functions,
> build it and install it in the right location.
>
> You have some instructions about how to write it here:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/libtracker-extract/unstable/libtracker-extract-How-to-use-libtracker-extract.html
>
>  And you can use any of the other already available extractors as
> example:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree/src/tracker-extract
>
> To test it while developing, you can set the environment variable
> TRACKER_EXTRACTORS_DIR to the directory with your module, and then
> run tracker-extract -f [YOUR_CHM_FILE]
>
> Probably the IRC channel (#tracker in GIMPnet) is the best way to get
> "interactive" help if you have any problem.

Great advise from Ivan there. I just wanted to warn you, these APIs and 
examples have changed in master recently. So depending on where you're 
targeting, you might want to look at the source.

The above suggestions are fine for 0.10.x.

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Regards,
Martyn