Re: Fwd: Suggestion about derived files and commands

[Brad Garcia]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Steven Knight wrote:

> Files could be stored in the cache in file names that match their
> content signature, not their build signature, and we'd have an index
> file that would map the build signatures to the right underlying cached
> file.  I'm sure that would save a lot of people a lot of space.

Or, instead of some index file, you could have files in the cache
whose names are the build signature, but whose contents are the
content signature.

This way, all the files are in the cache, and no new directory
structure needs to be developed in the cache.

Brad Garcia