Re: [Ginp-developers] Version 0.2 is released

[Justin <ju...@sq...>]

Doug Culnane wrote:
> I hope you are not offended by my comment I just wanted to integrate the 
> wizard with the application more.  I think the two should look the same 
> or similar.

No offence taken :).

> Lets stay with the XML idea then.  There is so much development that 
> maybe a XML database project exists.  This may allow us to say there is 
> the data index it and it does the rest and gives us an API for 
> searching...??
> 
> XSL may also give us some easy built in features for displaying pictures 
> and data on static exports.....
> 
> I will continue my Schema and then work on Parsing the xml data.  Then I 
> will look at creating the XML data from the web form.  When this is done 
> maybe we have found a cool xml data engine thing and can build the 
> search feature.
> 

	I was thinking last night about killer features for ginp that would 
make it much more popular and I decided that they cannot be done without 
a database.  One example of a great feature would be to show a random 
picture.  If you had thousands of pictures keeping these all in memory 
or doing directory traversals of meta data would be ridiculously slow. 
Another would be rating pictures and being able to view the highest 
rated.  Again, xml does not scale for this.  We could index the pictures 
via MD5 hash of the file so even if you moved stuff around the database 
could realize that the picture was the same one from earlier and find 
it.  We could make the database optional and just say that if you want 
these extra features you have to have a database.  I could add a page to 
the setup that would let people put in their DB info.  I have a lot of 
database app knowledge so I'll be able to get this moving along pretty 
quickly.

Regards,
	Justin