Well, I did the deed. I’ve been playing with ‘Gallery 2’ from CVS. It’s rather lacking, and I don’t just mean astetically. It’s rather, erm, basic, in it’s current functionality, which I can understand due to it’s development, but sadly, I was hoping there would be the means to import some of the local “flatfile” managed stuff from Gallery 1.x. This tool does not yet exist, darn it.
I looked at the DB’s settings and cranked out a little script to import about 2,000 files. It died, hard. (I’ll be investigating and get in touch with the Gallery Core group; should I find it necessary.)