Re: Current features and status (desktop crawler comparison)

"D Bera" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.dashboard.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>  > - Index archive files recursively (When will you add support for rar and 7zip?)
>>
>>
>> Archive files are already recursively indexed.
>>  No one I know is working on rar and 7zip indexing.
>
> I don't know if this is a Lucene.Net (your backend) issue or a Beagle issue.
> But I find this especially relevant from users comming from windows
> (I'm using Linux for 2 or 3 years now) where lots of CD/DVD backups
> (pre-Linux era) consist on .rar files with lots of documents, pics and
> mp3s.

It is Beagle's lack of feature. I agree that it would be very
desirable. Contributions are welcome.

BTW, simple indexing of the names of files in a rar file is possible
with external-filters.

- dBera

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