On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:20 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: > This is actually a similar problem for us with archive files or email > attachments. Do we want matches to actually refer to the file inside > the archive or just the archive itself? We may end up having to pull > apart archives (or mboxes), putting files in temporary locations and > feeding them to apps. That becomes a slippery slope: do modifications > to documents get saved back to the archive? What about email > attachments, which are immutable in the mail? I'm not sure what the > right thing to do here is. I always thought that one of the cool things about gnome-vfs was that you could simply pass a (chained) URI to a file in an archive, and the application would then be able to use it directly. If the gnome-vfs backend allowed writing back, then the file would be writable, otherwise, it would be read-only. But it seems that sort of thing never took off, and it still wouldn't solve the mbox problem, unless an mbox gnome-vfs chaining backend were written... > Joe Michael R Head <burner suppressingfire org> GPG: http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/gpg.key.txt (ID 23A02B1F)
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