On Mon Jun 11 12:29:10 2007, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > - Filesystem : The object data is stored on the fs
This one I understand. But does it count only if it's a local filesystem? Or only one that's mounted? > - Archive : The object data is contained in an archive > - Mailbox : The object data has been extracted from a mailbox A mailbox - the file sort - is an archive of mail messages - really there's nothing more to one than that. I'm sure that someone, somewhere, has used tar as a mailbox format - with some careful fiddling, it's probably quite a good one. > - Attachment : The data of this object is stored as an email > attachment Mind you, an attachment is just a part of a message that the MUA decided not to display inline. Functionally, there's no difference otherwise. I'm not entirely sure what the distinction is between this and mailbox, though. > The metaphor is "the content of this object is stored in". Immediately stored in? What happens if I send you a file attached to a message in a mbox format mailbox I've included in a tar.gz via email, and your search finds that - what's the source set to, and do I care? Maybe it's just me, but I think maybe this sort of thing gets left for a bit, until you guys have figured out what it is you need, here. Getting the basics working in an extensible way is much, much more interesting. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
