Re: Cache/Agent unification

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> The idea sounds good to me.  But I'd like to think Agent as the second
> level cache instead of Agent/Cache unification.

Ah, yes, this is probably a better view of things.

> Cache and Agent is for different purposes.  Currently, agentization
> requires too many manual operations, e.g.  users have to manually
> *fetch* headers and articles and Agent doesn't save read articles
> while plugged.  Maybe we should make Agent more automatic and more
> comprehensive.  My proposal is simple: calling Agent functions in
> gnus-retrieve-headers and its friends; saving headers and articles
> into nnagent when users read news in plugged mode.  Of course, users
> can use `J s' to fetch all news.
>
> Any thought?

Something like this is what I was thinking about.  The Agent should
just work, it shouldn't require endless amount of configuration.  But
while where at it we'd might as well fix the NOV cache situation also
-- right now you have three local NOV files that contains roughly the
same stuff (if you're using nnimap, cache and agent at least).

Maybe I could apply the allow-agent-to-download-read-articles patch as
well.