Re: [Ids-devel] death of ids

[Stephen J. G. <go...@sl...>]

FWIW I think IDS is great. I've been running Gallery alongside it for some 
time but IDS generally always wins when I want to look at the pictures 
myself. I know it will be up to date. I have the patch so that it rotates 
the displayed pictures automatically. I imagine I'll be running it for 
some time to come.

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Nick Phillips wrote:

> 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
>
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