Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Preliminary Arch Cache available

[Aaron Bentley]

James Blackwell wrote:

> DUDE! This sounds neat! Anything holding it up for 1.2.3?

Well, there are a few things it should be caching that it isn't yet. 
Dunno when 1.2.3 will be, so it might be ready in time.

> Instead of reregistering archives with cache:, what if we just do this
> for all archive if =arch-cache exists, and then for each archive that
> has a location that doesn't start with path_sep? After all, archives are
> generally small, and disk space is *much* cheaper than bandwidth.

I wouldn't oppose that, if people wanted it.  Or we could have a 
=default-cached configuration option, or something.

> I can only imagine how powerful this will be once it has support for
> disconnected ops, perhaps chattering a "Warning: Original Archive not
> available; working from cached data"

Definitely with a warning.  Maybe a config option, not sure.

> Side question: How does this interrelate with [ar]browse and other 
> similiar tools that walk archives? 

I dunno if it's useful to them.  Even if you could get a list of 
categories from the cache, you'd still want to query the real archive to 
make sure nothing had been added, so no point querying the cache.

Aaron