From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2004-07-24 10:47:50
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Feature Requests item #997021, was opened at 2004-07-24 05:59 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by trepan You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=353248&aid=997021&group_id=3248 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Bryan Ford (baford) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Tagging the cache directory Initial Comment: Dear BZFlag folks, I happened to notice after playing BZFlag a few times that it creates and maintains a cache directory of some kind in the user's home directory (called $(HOME)/.bzf/cache.linux 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 easily recognizable way, so that backup and archival software can easily be configured to exclude uselessly backing up such regenerable data. All BZFlag 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 BZFlag. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Dave Rodgers (trepan) Date: 2004-07-24 06:47 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=96333 the code is written (all eight or nine lines of it). i'll see what the other devs think of it, and add it if there is a positive consensus. just curious, besides the mozilla folks, what other cache generating apps do you have on board? which archiving tools do you plan to use this with? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=353248&aid=997021&group_id=3248 |