Re: Cache/Agent unification

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

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

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Hm.  Maybe there still is a gap though -- cached articles (not
>> persistant ones) are kept around (and shown in summary buffers) even
>> when they have expired on the server, if `gnus-cache-remove-articles'
>> is nil (or something).  But this is probably a bug.  A cache should
>> cache things, not change semantics.
>
> Says who?  :-)
>
> It's definitely a feature, and it's a feature that's shared by the
> Agent.  Neither the Agent nor the cache cares one whit whether
> articles are expired on the server.  They'll keep articles around
> until the user makes them go away.
>
> (The same goes with canceled/superseded articles, but that might be
> considered a bug.)

Hm.  Many people use the cache for persistent articles (at least I
think of it like that -- I hit `!' to let a message stick around
forever).  So that part of the cache is misnamed, IMHO.

Maybe we need to think of two (or three?) new
packages/functionalities, and then we can choose new names and then we
can think of how to move old functionality to the new names.

kai
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