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On Wednesday 03 March 2010 19:30:56 stosss wrote: |
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> > I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk |
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> > indexing function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it |
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> > itself. |
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> I think Amarok uses MySQL. |
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Amarok definitely uses MySQL, but that's the storage function, we are talking |
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about the search function. |
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It uses MySQL in the most brain-dead way anyone ever heard of, a way that no- |
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one in their right mind would consider even half-way sane. |
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It *requires* you to jump through interminable loops at build-time because it |
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wants, wait for it, shared embedded libraries. I mean, wtf? That's not |
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something MySQL was built to do. It's like having sex to preserve virginity |
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Then, to top it all, the Qt db libs get used wrongly too, causing the db to |
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... not work. |
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