Re: [Ids-devel] death of ids

[Nick P. <nw...@nz...>]

On 11/12/2006, at 7:42 AM, Anthony D'Atri wrote:

>
>> it has horrible management of files, especially filenames, theres no
>> correction of invalid names or names that could be problematic and  
>> i'm
>> tired of having to kill runaway ids processes from uploads gone bad,
>> wether it be uploads that are cancelled on the user end and never
>> die on
>> the ids end or if the user gave it a filename that ids cant hang
>> with..
>
> Hmmm, I've never tried uploading files straight to IDS.  The thing
> that most attracted me to IDS in the first place was the fact that I
> *didn't* have to do this, that I could just SCP the files into place,
> create directories, move them around etc. arbitrarily and IDS would
> do the right thing.  I looked briefly at Gallery a while back, and it
> really really didn't meet my needs.  It insisted on keeping images in
> some monolithic db where I couldn't get at them or manage them from
> the shell.
>
> I have two issues with IDS:
>
> 1) Thumbnail generation doesn't work on TIFF files

Easily fixed; I was running a version with this working until my hard  
drive crashed. I'm not sure whether I still have a version of it that  
has that feature.

I also made it work with mod_perl to speed it up (and provide access  
control per-album/image), but didn't get that working with mod_perl2  
for apache2.

In the end I decided that it was probably not worth trying to get it  
going again after the drive crash (I did rescue the code I'd been  
using, but may have accidentally deleted it subsequently!) -- the  
code is a bit of a mess in any case, and something written from  
scratch to run with mod_perl2 (or even mod_python) would be a better  
use of the effort.

Having said that, if I can find the code I was using before, you're  
welcome to it.


Cheers,


Nick