[Xapian-discuss] patch proposal: omindex library or daemon

[Liam]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:14 PM, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org>wrote:

> On 23 Oct 2011, at 12:44, Liam wrote:
>
> > To my mind the core of omindex is the file format converter, and code
> > inputting results to the db. I don't need the directory walker myself
> (and
> > filesystem-based collections are decreasingly common in online contexts).
>
> But almost all of the work in file format conversion is outside omindex…I
> guess I'm just not seeing the omindex code here as significant as you are
> :-)
>

Well the converter logic and mime map is >1000 LOC. That's significant
enough to libify, n'est ce pas?