Le Dim 4 mai 08 à 15:49:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 11:24 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > If you want to index your files (metadata, or informative filenames, or > > > whatever) and dump them all in one directory, go ahead. Thinking about > > > a suitable indexing system is an exercise for the reader. (A non-trivial > > > exercise. Library indexing systems are still a topic of research; I > > imagine > > > the complexity of indexing millions of items of entirely disparate kinds > > of > > > data, such as a typical computer contains, would be phenomenal.) > > > > Doesn't Beagle do this exact thing ? Or, have I got it completely wrong ? > > > > http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page > > Well, Beagle tries to spare you the trouble of doing metadata by looking > inside > the files... and it handles directory trees fine. If you want to do what > Jason > suggests -- dump everything in a single directory (like a single library room) > and depend on metadata and indexing to find what you want, Beagle would be > overkill...
Maybe not Beagle, but Eaglemode, without B? <http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html> -- Th. Thomas. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
