[Shotwell] Consider using Taglist to handle metadata?

[Adam Dingle]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Bengt Thuree <bengt.thuree at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just to inform you guys that F-Spot is starting a push to get Taglib to
> handle all the metadata.
>
> Perhaps this is something for Shotwell as well?
>

The C-based TagLib library
(http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html<http://developer.kde.org/%7Ewheeler/taglib.html>)
handles audio metadata, not photo metadata (EXIF/IPTC/XMP), so it wouldn't
be useful for Shotwell.  It appears that TagLib# is a .NET/Mono port of
TagLib and that the TagLib# developers may be adding support for photo
metadata.  Of course TagLib# is not an option for Shotwell, which has no
dependency on Mono.  The trunk build of Shotwell uses libexiv2 to read photo
metadata and it's working well, so I see no reason to consider switching to
something else.

adam