Dear aRts/MCOP folks, Although I'm not familiar with the internals of MCOP, I've noticed that MCOP creates and manages a cache directory of some kind in the user's home directory, called $(HOME)/.mcop/trader-cache on my system. I wondered if you'd be willing to support a trivial convention I'm proposing by which cache-managing applications can tag their caches in a standard and recognizable way, so that backup and archival software can easily be configured to exclude uselessly backing up such regenerable data. All MCOP would have to do is write into its cache directory a file named ".IsCacheDirectory", containing a specific fixed header - probably a 5- or 10-line change to MCOP. The full (but short) proposal is at:
http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir ...and the main discussion of the proposal is occurring on the xdg-list on freedesktop.org. The Mozilla folks are already on board and receptive to the idea, which is obviously critical since Mozilla caches probably represent the bulk of uselessly backed-up cached content on free desktop systems - but I'd of course like to get the support of a wider variety of applications. Comments and discussion (privately or on the xdg-list) are of course welcome. Thanks very much! Bryan _______________________________________________ Arts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts
