From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:52:56 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] GSoC Project of Interest In-Reply-To: <1240449619-sup-9301@junction.es.net> References: <1240449619-sup-9301@junction.es.net> Message-ID: <1240490917-sup-3402@entry> Reformatted excerpts from Jon Dugan's message of 2009-04-22: > Most services on Plan 9 are implemented as synthetic file systems. > The synthetic filesystem that represents email on Plan 9 is known as > upas. upas provides a filesytem view of mail boxes regardless of > their backend storage medium (eg, POP, IMAP, etc) which provides a > nice clean separation between the code that you use to do useful > things to your mail and the code that deals with the mail store > itself. Very interesting and that's a great abstraction. Definitely lots of overlap with STS. I suspect the primary differences will be that STS uses fielded, full-text search as its primary access mechanism, and there's no notion of any kind of filesystem-like mailbox or directory hierarchy. -- William