[haiku-development] Re: TrackerGrep [was Re: missing -lm?]
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 18:30:04 +0200
On 2008-05-02 at 17:29:05 [+0200], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I cannot comment on the other issues, but this reminded me of a question I
> > wanted to bring up: I think TrackerGrep is great and IMHO it could be part
> > of the base Haiku distro. I looked at the code and it is clean and easy to
> > follow. I would like to extend the app to support node monitoring for
> > every
> > listed file, so that the list adapts live to any changes you do to these
> > files as soon as you change them. I guess that would be another nice
> > feature
> > when doing Haiku demos.
>
> I think that idea is fine and support it.
>
> What would also be good is to add some indexing of files, a la Beagle,
> Spotlight and all that. Though that is certainly a lot more work than
> just adding TrackerGrep.
This is definitely a must have, though not for R1. We will probably implement
the indexing in a separate server. The most interesting question is how to do
that in a fast way. We might need to add some special FS support for it.
CU, Ingo
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