From: johnbent@lanl.gov (John Bent)
Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:04:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216656194-sup-755@tangerine.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721152658.GA23270@patter.mine.nu>
Excerpts from Stephen Patterson's message of Mon Jul 21 09:26:59 -0600 2008:
> On 21 Jul 08, William Morgan (wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net) wrote:
> > Reformatted excerpts from Peter Krenn's message of 2008-07-21:
> > > What kind of interface will this service provide? Or will it be more
> > > like a library which one could use to access the sup storage from any
> > > application? Something like a specialized database?
> >
> > It will be a network service with Thrift defining the interface.
>
> So we'd then need a collection of custom client applications to search
> and/or browse the index?
>
> This sounds quite a bit like the beagle project -
> http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page
>
And google desktop:
http://desktop.google.com
And spotlight:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
And MS Fast Find:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q166/3/02.ASP
There is room for improvement in all of these tools but the margin seems
considerably smaller than it did for the sup email client which is vastly
superior to anything else.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 21:33 William Morgan
2008-07-20 23:28 ` Guillaume Quintard
2008-07-21 0:04 ` William Morgan
2008-07-21 5:43 ` Guillaume Quintard
2008-07-21 12:14 ` Peter Krenn
2008-07-21 15:22 ` William Morgan
2008-07-21 15:26 ` Stephen Patterson
2008-07-21 16:04 ` John Bent [this message]
2008-07-22 2:12 ` William Morgan
2008-07-23 17:40 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-23 22:26 ` William Morgan
2008-07-24 9:16 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-21 18:43 ` Lionel Ott
2008-07-23 8:45 ` Richard Heycock
2008-07-23 8:58 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-23 9:27 ` teroz
2008-07-23 21:41 ` Richard Heycock
2008-07-23 17:09 ` William Morgan
2008-07-25 12:11 ` Marcus Williams
2008-07-24 4:55 ` Guarded Identity
2008-07-24 9:21 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-25 16:00 ` William Morgan
2008-07-26 7:32 ` Guarded Identity
2008-07-25 7:18 ` William Morgan
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