Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:06:40 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Something Like Beagle Message-ID: <20061010160640.62815.qmail@web83108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <452BA2DA.3010801@voidmain.net>
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--- Tom Grove <freebsd@voidmain.net> wrote: > backyard wrote: > > --- Tom Grove <freebsd@voidmain.net> wrote: > > > > > >> Is there something like beagle that runs on > FreeBSD? > >> If not is it > >> something that people would like to see ported? > >> > >> -Tom > >> > > > > > > Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle > the > > evolutionary computation system? > > > > The personel data indexer seems cool to me. the > > evolutionary computation system isn't something I > > would personally find useful. > > > > my two cents > > > > > > -brian > > > > > > I am referring to the data indexer. I understand > that it uses something > called iNotify within the Linux kernel and that is > why it may not be a > very nice port to *BSD. I am wondering if it would > be possible to use > something like kqueue to notify the calling program > of a disk write like > iNotify does. > that sounds logical, but since beagle is a gnome item isn't there an existing gnome function that wraps kqueue into its API to do somekind of fast indexing or track file changes? Not a programmer sorry, but I seem to recall something along those lines when I was reading the descriptions to the ports I had installed while setting the knobs for my rebuild. I could look into that more if so desired... > Just throwing out thought because I think that a > desktop search tool > would be well received with the desktop BSD > community. > > -Tom I would tend to concur with that. -brian
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