Re: Re(2): Database storage approach

["Duncan Rose" <d rose iti salford ac uk>]

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> From: Alexander Peuchert <peuc@peuchert.de>
> To: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Re(2): Database storage approach
> Date: 28 April 1999 09:39
>
> On 28 Apr 1999, Preben Randhol wrote:
>
>> Alexander Peuchert <peuc@peuchert.de> writes:
>> 
>> | So, here is another try:
>> | 
>> | still store things the normal way, but put a database atop of it. Also
>> | allow to use the fileselector in two different ways. First normal
>> | filesystem view, second virtual database view!
>> | The database indexes all stored files and keeps track of changes from
>>not
>> | gnomish apps.
>> 
>> Locate does this more or less already :-) 
>

This sounds like it's going to turn into another discussion on the
merits of a registry for Linux... lots of posts on this topic in
comp.os.linux.devel.* recently.

	-Duncan

> Yes, but explain that my Mom! ;-)
>
>> 
>> -- 
>> Preben Randhol                     «There are three things you can do 
>> [randhol@pvv.org] 	            to a woman. You can love her, suffer 
>> [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]      for her or turn her into
>litterature.»
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

ps. Only 2 't's in "literature".

>>                                             - Justine, by Lawrence
>Durrell
>> 

Alexander Peuchert
mailto:alexander@peuchert.de
http://www.peuchert.de ( not very interesting yet ;-) )


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