Tired of Hierarchies
Thierry Thomas
thierry at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 4 14:01:37 UTC 2008
Le Dim 4 mai 08 à 15:49:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd at online.fr>
écrivait :
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh <rs at midearth.co.uk> 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.
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