On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 09:42:51PM -0500, Chibby Bromanson wrote: > Greetings, > > I am very impressed with the suckless software movement and I am doing > my best to try to create my own tool that follows the philosophy. I > still have a lot to learn with the C language but so far I am proud of > the results. I would be greatful if someone would review my tool and > consider it for inclusion in the list of tools that ROCK! :D > > The tool is for maintaining a list of descriptive tags on an extended > file attribute. It plugs in nicely with fzf and other command line > tools. > > http://github.com/bromanbro/taggins > > Thank you for your consideration. > > Dorian >
Any reason for using space as internal delimitor when it could be anything that's unlikely to be used in a tag (e.g. ASCII US)? Although I had the same idea a long time ago, I decided that using some kind of database [1] solves both the problem of xattr portability and performance (no need to crawl the filesystem to get your tags). [1] Would have to be anything with a daemon to avoid reading/writing the db constantly and using a tree structure for performance reasons. Said daemon could also do stuff like Windows -> POSIX and/or character encoding path translation if more portability is wanted. Regards, Hadrien Lacour
