Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-01 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:53:51PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: One related thing that I've thought about (a little but not enough) is typed tags or meta-tags. So e.g. the tag 'ion' could have the meta-tag 'project'. The path component #project would then filter out everything that doesn't

Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-01 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-01, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments? I didn't bother to read all the technical explanation in detail, but it seems to me that you're not after what I'm after. You're after a more complex system, where all tags are merely informational, meta-data, whereas in my system the

Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-01 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
To avoid further confusions, a clarifying example is perhaps in order: Suppose we're dealing with two files, e.g. the README files for Ion, and, say, gcc. On a traditional hierarchical FS, we might store these as ion/README gcc/README and these paths would be the unique