Re: [Hamlib-developer] Moving rig_cache out of rig_state into private storage

[George B. <geo...@gm...>]

On 5/17/25 4:44 AM, Daniele Forsi wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I think the rig_cache structure should be completely internal to Hamlib, and not visible to the calling application.
> that's a good thing

                ^

             very

>
>> I hope there's no big use of this data elsewhere.
> how external software would be using the current cache API?
Strange are the ways of application programmers
>
> I grepped for "rig_cache" in the sources that I have locally (mostly
> from Debian) and I found it only in Hamlib
>
> I searched on github for
> language:C symbol:rig_cache NOT (path:rig.h OR path:cache.h OR path:cache.c)
>
> and found 15 results unrelated to Hamlib; a search that doesn't
> exclude the files above returns more than 3000 results, including
> various copies of Hamlib

Given that there were no other responses, I'll go ahead and finish 
tidying up the code, and create a PR for master.