Re: The Agent now downloading gigs of old articles...

[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.
>
>> Personally, I also prefer uncached as a word than undownloaded or
>> unfetched.
>
> Well, it's quite confusing to call variables according to what they
> aren't.
>

OK, I'll agree that I missed the call on the variable names.  The only
problem is that, if I change them now, anyone who customized the face
by the old name will loose their customization.  Should I care?  You
just made a release, does that make this a good time for this sort of
fix?

Kevin