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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners
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James Blackwell |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners |
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:18:57 -0400 |
Pierce Wetter wrote:
> You're both wrong. Some features just "make sense" in a software
> product, some don't. Browsers that don't have a local cache really
> suck to use, so they all have them.
>
> On the other hand, I prefer FireFox to Mozilla, because all the
> "extra" stuff in Mozilla is annoying.
I'm a firefox user myself, for similiar reasons. I *definitely* agree
with you. Features for the sake of features is the wrong way to go.
However, features that are directly related, that certainly have a
positive benefit on users, is the way to go.
This is one of those cases, where I think a feature that has been
proposed that will do a pretty good job of making the life of users a
lot better. Sure, there's some details to hammer out, but on the whole I
think its a pretty good idea.
Its not something silly like embedding a lisp virtual machine into a
revision control system. ;)
> Our job as software engineers to to decide what makes sense and what
> doesn't. Its a valid point that a general purpose cache might
> be less useful then a domain specific cache for tla. Many tla users
> have requested a cache, so there's obviously some desire there.
Aye.
>
> The issue with caching is never filling the cache, that's easy, its
> flushing the cache. So a tla-specific cache could intelligently flush
> in a way that a general purpose one couldn't.
Archives are generally pretty small. I have about 175 archives that take
up a grand total of 2 gigabytes of space. However, I'm kind of special
to have that many archives. So I figure most users will probably have a
grand total of perhaps 20 archives at about 20 megs each. So I'd be
comfortable if Aaron's code *never* pruned.
Regarding the rest of your post, yeah. Its all been a sticky situation
all around, but I'm trying to keep Tom as involved as involved in the
development process as possible.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, James Blackwell, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, Miles Bader, 2004/09/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, David Allouche, 2004/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, Tom Lord, 2004/09/19
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, Eske Christiansen, 2004/09/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners,
James Blackwell <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Manners, Tom Lord, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Andrew Suffield, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, James Blackwell, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, James Blackwell, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Tom Lord, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, James Blackwell, 2004/09/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Tom Lord, 2004/09/17
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch Cache & cached archives, Eric Wong, 2004/09/18