Re: Tired of Hierarchies


Le Dim  4 mai 08 15:49:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
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> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh <rs@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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