[haiku-development] Re: Working on Haiku's Mail app
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:19:37 +0100
Hi,
On 2009-12-03 at 23:47:12 [+0100], Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The situation where I could see a bigger impact is when one uses queries
> to organize, say, a huge archive of emails into sets of files that would
> be smaller but still result in thousands of files each. I used to do this
> in ZETA without much problems (granted, not in the early versions); if
> this is not a scenario that we can expect to become viable in Haiku
> (whenever the optimizations are done), that would considerably reduce the
> usefulness of queries as a means to file management and the value of
> queries as a selling point for the OS.
Hm. My experience with ZETA (1.21) was quite different. I was practically
forced to switch to Haiku, because ZETA couldn't deal with the ammount of
mails on my system anymore. And this was particularily due to queries: Beam
installs a Deskbar replicant by default, which among other things performs
a query on new email. This started to KDL my ZETA installation in BFS code.
I could fix it for a while by removing a bunch of mails, I also reformatted
the partition with the mails and put them back on, but the problem kept
returning. And I remember Steffen Friedle of Mindwork had similar problems
downloading his huge archive of mails onto a ZETA installation...
But anyway, your point remains valid. Queries should scale well, or they
will lose their usefulness.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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