ids-devel

[Ids-devel] IDS and iPhoto - works great

[Arshad T. <ars...@sl...>]

Is there any future for ids?  I'm a huge fan, because it magically 
integrates with my iPhoto libraries and photo albums on my Mac.


Here's what I like about IDS (and why I prefer it to alternatives such 
as Gallery):

1) Generates thumbnails and different sizes on demand - saving time and 
space for less frequently visited photos.
2) Does not involve a cumbersome upload process (like Gallery did)
3) Allows visitor to choose default image viewing size - and I don't 
have to do anything additional to shrink images for web serving
4) (the best one), with one simple symlink, ids magically is serving 
all of my iPhoto libraries.  It's brilliant!  I did nothing!

(ln -s /Users/<username>/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/Albums 
/Library/Webserver/Documents/<ids-folder>/albums)
- as long as permissions are leniently set, this will work.

Now, it looks like ids development has all but stagnated... hopefully I 
will have time to help - that is, if I'm not the lone remaining ids fan 
out there.

The one big obstacle to getting ids to work on a Mac.... it had nothing 
to do with IDS.  But getting ImageMagick and PerlMagick to work on the 
mac took me a couple of days the first time, and another 3 days to redo 
it with Panther (10.3).  It was a royal PITA.   Hopefully fink will 
take care of that when they update their ImageMagick package.

-Arshad

Re: [Ids-devel] IDS and iPhoto - works great

[Jeff M. <jef...@vi...>]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 03:00, Arshad Tayyeb wrote:
> Is there any future for ids? 

I'm one of 2 people who has actual CVS write access. I haven't been able
to donate much time to the project because of my twin boys. They have
basically taken all of my free time! For some silly reason I thought I'd
have more time as they got older (1 year in a couple weeks).

<snip>

> The one big obstacle to getting ids to work on a Mac.... it had nothing 
> to do with IDS.  But getting ImageMagick and PerlMagick to work on the 
> mac took me a couple of days the first time, and another 3 days to redo 
> it with Panther (10.3).  It was a royal PITA.   Hopefully fink will 
> take care of that when they update their ImageMagick package.
> 

I'd personally like to get rid of ImageMagick and use other libraries.
There is an alternative mostly in Perl with the only dependencies being
the jpeg libraries. Can't recall the name.

I'd also like to have the Ids package contain all the needed CPAN
modules and build them at install time within the users directory space
(some of the work is all ready present in CVS). I currently do this at
work. It helps in those situations when newer modules actually break
stuff.

Anyway, the way to get write access is to send lots of patches. That's
what I did and Ashely gave me access. Shortly after I became a father!