Sorry, I meant "baloo's scanning capabilities, which are much better than strigi's were."
-- Soren Harward stharw...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 11:02 Soren Harward <stharw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've done testing with SQLite in other applications, and I don't think the > problems we had with it 10 years ago are relevant anymore due to > improvements in both hardware and software. I've got a private branch where > I started porting Amarok's code over to SQLite a couple of years ago, but > didn't finish it. It's still a worthy goal. > > The other thing I started doing in that branch is using baloo for file > scanning and metadata extraction, with only Amarok-specific data like play > counts stored in the SQLite DB. That, I think, is the best way to go so > Amarok doesn't duplicate strigi's pretty good scanning capabilities. > > -- > Soren Harward > stharw...@gmail.com > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 10:31 Myriam Schweingruber <myr...@kde.org> wrote: > >> Hi Leo, >> >> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 10:11, subscription1 <llsub...@zudiewiener.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Given that the embedded MySql has disappeared from the latest Ubuntu >>> release the only other alternative to install Amarok on this (and later) >>> releases I can see is to >>> >>> 1. Make amarok installation dependant on a MySQL server installation >>> 2. Use something like Sqlite as the default >>> >>> I don't really have a solution, but I know we deliberately changed from >> SQLite wich was default in Amarok 1.x to MySQL embedded with the option of >> MySQL Server due to the bad scaling of SQLite. Many users of Amarok >> requested that change, some having enormous databases that were very >> slow to handle with SQLite. >> >> We probably have to choose the first option, but giving the users the >> option to use an existing MySQL server installation or creating one just >> for Amarok. There also is software in place (probably outdated) to use >> Akonadi which we waited to get usable before adopting it, something which >> even Kmail is still struggling with, unless Akonadi is used with PostgreSQL. >> Of course another option would be to change to PostgreSQL which scales >> quite well and might be a better solution. This looks like something we >> would need to ask the users TBH. >> >> Regards, Myriam >> >> PS. Unless we find a better embedded database system, of course... >> -- >> Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community >> Protect your freedom and support the work of the FSFE: >> http://www.fsfe.org >> <http://www.fsfe.org/> >> Please don't send me proprietary file formats, >> use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) >> >
