Re: [help-GIFT] Appending to a collection, merging collections, or just "restoring" db-files

[Kamil Wencel]

Hi Julia,

thanks for the script. I'm sure Jonas will test it and so will I. As 
Jonas said, it is really time-consuming to test all possible ways 
without proper guidance. I barely have a clue of what really is under 
the hood and I guess it will take a lot of time fiddling around until I 
reach the next level. So I really appreciate your efforts and I will 
comment on your script, once I had a chance to test run it in a clean 
environment.

--Kamil
> A while back, i did the required research to create a collection in
> multiple stages. What i was doing was running my (faster) feature 
> extractor against all the image files, using several machines,
> dropping the result into one big database, and running the following
> version of the gift-add-collection.pl script.
>
> I'm attaching said script.
>
> I THINK it works along the same lines as you're talking about,
> only I was using several machines to create a collection with this.
>
> I've done the "homework". A collection built with this script is
> bitwise identical to a collection built normally.
>
> Please comment.