[Ginp-developers] More Bad Ideas.

[Doug C. <do...@cu...>]

Some more bad ideas for the HowTo store picture data:

Originally I wanted to store data in EXIF format.  This means the data 
always stays with the picture :-).  But :-(:
- Some picture editors destroy the EXIF data when they save the modified 
file.
- A bug in the ginp means that it could corrupt the picture. So I 
decided to make the original pictures read only (because I am a coward).
- You still have the same problem indexing and searching data that you 
have with XML.

If the data is on disk in XML files a search could start a new thread in 
the background that feeds the array of the models current pictures.  
Therefore the search can happen slowly in the background but the user 
gets to start browsing the results immediately.  This would scale 
because the data is not in memory but it would be very slow, but it 
would be usable maybe....?

Doug

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Doug Culnane
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