Support for multiple feature extractors, and new features (was Re: alive?)

David Squire wrote:
> There is a broader point too though. I would like to encourage the 
> idea that the feature extraction part of the GIFT should be in some 
> way pluggable. When adding a collection, the user should be able to 
> specify which feature extraction system he/she wants to use, and there 
> could be multiple ones shipped with the GIFT, or others could be 
> available from third party sites.
>
> I guess that this would mean that (at least) an attribute would have 
> to be added to the collection element in the gift-config.mrml file so 
> that the system could be aware of whether features are comensurate for 
> different collections.
>
> I am fairly sure there was a discussion about this a few years ago, 
> either on this list, or via email - I will have a look for it.
The discussion I was recalling is the one starting at 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gift/2004-08/msg00009.html

Perhaps I should devote some real time to this this year.

BTW, has anyone reported installing the GIFT on Mac OS X? I'm on a 
Powerbook G4 this year (though of course I can ssh into my AMD64 linux 
machine back in Australia if necessary). I don't have current access to 
a 32 bit i[3-6]86 box this year though, so I am not in a great position 
for doing "standard" development.

Cheers,

David

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