From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: johnbent@lanl.gov (John Bent) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:04:33 -0600 Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii In-Reply-To: <20080721152658.GA23270@patter.mine.nu> References: <1216589569-sup-1520@entry> <575d86ad0807210514n573972ecr2feb7aafcb9679e1@mail.gmail.com> <1216653716-sup-7355@entry> <20080721152658.GA23270@patter.mine.nu> Message-ID: <1216656194-sup-755@tangerine.lanl.gov> 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