[ansel] Problem with sub-galleries and XP-publishing???

[Heath S. Hendrickson]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Ben Chavet <ben at chavet.net>:
>
>> It actually makes a copy of the image.  I was thinking about using 
>> pointers, but how often would an image actually be copied to another 
>> gallery?  Probably not often enough to make it worth the headache of 
>> using pointers.
>
>
> Using pointers for this would just be a headache - we'd essentially 
> have to
> reference count everything.
>
That's the concensus that I found on the discussion boards of some of 
the other gallery apps that I looked at.  Although, if you think about 
it in a slightly different way, then maybe it's not that outlandish.  If 
all images were uploaded into a single bucket (call it and image box, to 
use a real-world metaphor).  Then you can assign images to various 
albums from the image box, and it happens via pointers.  Deleting an 
image from an album just removes that pointer.  If you delete an image 
from the image box, then it just has to remove the pointers from all the 
albums.  That could even be made more manageable by storing all 
referencing albums as a field with the image itself.

Just somethiung to think about.

h