You are welcome to convince him to use reiser4....;-) hans
Leo Comerford wrote: >Speaking of handling email, wanting maximum power, and (not) using >databases which aren't integrated into the filesystem namespace: note >that the thin GUI on top of a filesystem of predicate- and >link-directories with pathname-listing is, among other things, >Chandler (the promised son-of-Lotus-Agenda) done right. > >In particular, see > >http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000092.html > >. > >"attributes and their values" --> /foo/bar/baz >"relationships to other items" --> /foo/fum:aaardvark/foo etc. >"payload" --> file body >"show views of [things] organized by [foo]" --> ls foo (note no distinction > between d-to-m and m-to-d > metadata) > >The other mappings are left as an exercise: they're astonishingly (and >amusingly) precise. > >Leo. >-- >Leo Richard Comerford - http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~lrc1 - accept no namesakes :) > > > >
