[haiku-commits] Re: r39175 - haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/index_server
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:13:07 +0100
"Clemens Zeidler" <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Beyond that, how about an add-on that automatically retrieves IMDB
> > data
> > for movies? :-)
> yes in principle no problem, but don't know exactly what to do if no
> network connection is established. There is no mechanism at the moment
> to
> retry files if an add-on fails to analyze it...
Such a mechanism needs to be there, anyway, though :-)
Some sort of atomic todo list.
> By the way what do you think about putting registrar mime-type
> sniffing
> functionality into the index server? for example, for a media
> partition
> this would be desirable to have the mime type for all files.
That thought also crossed my mind some time ago, and I would say the
index_server would be the natural home for that kind of functionality
(unlike the registrar).
> For a source
> code partition (keyword compiling performance) this and a indexer in
> general is probably not the best idea...
Why not? I frequently search for some identifier over a codebase; there
is definitely a use for grok, especially without Eclipse and Java :-)
Bye,
Axel.
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