Cache/Agent Integration

[kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com writes:
>
>> As for uncached, well I'd been reading too many old articles
>> suggesting that the cache and agent should be merged.
>
> That may be the case, but probably not.  The cache is for storing
> stuff you want forever.  The Agent is an offline news reader with
> expiry and stuff.  They happen to be implemented pretty similarly,
> but the functionality is pretty different.

I just noticed that gnus-agent-catchup marked CACHED articles as read
simply because they were not in the agent.  Previously, I had to
change the gnus-agent-fetch-session code to not fetch expired articles
simply because they had a cached mark.

If the cache is for storing stuff forever then can't we add that to
the agent?  Would it be sufficient to simply have the agent expiration
process ignore articles that had a cached mark?

Alternatively, can we keep the agent and cache as distinct features
yet use the same directory structure for both?

Thanks,
Kevin