[TYPO3] Is DAM worth its use or is it dead?

[Christopher Schnell]

Hi Xavier,

This is just my personal opinion and it surely does not match with most 
DAM users:

I used DAM in my last two projects and unless forced to, I will not use 
it again. It only confuses the editor and so far, I have never seen an 
"normal" editor of a web page (I am not talking about magazines and 
such) use any meta information. He just orders his images and media 
files in a folder tree as he is used to and is happy. So in 98% of all 
cases I (personal opinion) do not see any real reason why I should use 
the DAM any more. The ususal file-module is easy and fast and as long as 
you do not need any particular feature of DAM as Must-Have feature, 
leave it.

With your question on binaries, I cannot help you, since I only used DAM 
for images. With little success.

Regards,
Christopher.


Xavier Perseguers schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> On 17th March, then on 23rd March, I asked the list about configuration 
> hints for dam_index, an extension that is supposed to help indexing 
> files with DAM and populating meta info fields. As you may double check, 
> I got no single answer. My problem is that dam_index does not work when 
> supposed to call external binaries to get metainformation, such as 
> exiftags or pdfinfo.
>
> Anyway, my question is more about DAM itself. I find this extension (and 
> those who are related) very good and useful. However, there seems to be 
> freeze of some of DAM extension and I was said that DAM was somehow 
> "dead". Is is true? Should I go on with it, trying to find a good source 
> of information on why these indexing services are not working on my 
> server? Is it worth the try? Or should I forget about this extension and 
> use another extension for document management? Or forget at all about it 
> with TYPO3?
>
> Thanks for your answer. I'm quite disappointed with the lack of 
> information about this very extension as there is plenty of info for 
> nearly any other extension.
>