[ansel] remote_import - what to do with duplicate gallery names?

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Sep 8 20:49:23 UTC 2008


Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> k. I misunderstood the issue then.  I don't think it would be   
> confusing for a user the way it operates now.  It's basically just a  
>  batch import script.  Personally, I wouldn't have any expectation  
> as  to auto-detection of gallery names unless I use the provided  
> --gallery  or --slug switches...but maybe I'm misunderstanding  
> something or not a  typical user ;)

I had 5-6 identically named galleries because of dropping the same  
folder on the AppleScript uploader a few times while testing when  
setting this up for my dad. :)

> I'm not _against_ something here, but don't have any bright ideas  
> that  would catch every use case either.  For example it's not  
> unrealistic  for a single user to have multiple galleries with the  
> same name placed  under different parents so even if we assumed  
> folder_name ==  gallery_name we could still have collisions that  
> would need to be  resolved via prompts in the script.

Yeah, I think we should probably leave it as is for now.

-chuck


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