--- Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> backyard wrote: > > --- Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Is there something like beagle that runs on > FreeBSD? > >> If not is it > >> something that people would like to see ported? > >> > >> -Tom > >> > > > > > > Beagle the personal data indexer, or open beagle > the > > evolutionary computation system? > > > > The personel data indexer seems cool to me. the > > evolutionary computation system isn't something I > > would personally find useful. > > > > my two cents > > > > > > -brian > > > > > > I am referring to the data indexer. I understand > that it uses something > called iNotify within the Linux kernel and that is > why it may not be a > very nice port to *BSD. I am wondering if it would > be possible to use > something like kqueue to notify the calling program > of a disk write like > iNotify does. > that sounds logical, but since beagle is a gnome item isn't there an existing gnome function that wraps kqueue into its API to do somekind of fast indexing or track file changes? Not a programmer sorry, but I seem to recall something along those lines when I was reading the descriptions to the ports I had installed while setting the knobs for my rebuild. I could look into that more if so desired... > Just throwing out thought because I think that a > desktop search tool > would be well received with the desktop BSD > community. > > -Tom I would tend to concur with that. -brian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
