Bug 17839

Summary: Consider allowing CMs to write caches to $XDG_CACHE_HOME
Product: Telepathy Reporter: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component: tp-specAssignee: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Simon McVittie 2008-09-30 04:37:37 UTC 
Gabble wastes a lot of network I/O on disco caps replies whenever we sign on, and to work well, MSN CMs need to cache a bewildering variety of tokens.

Perhaps we should relax the "CMs shouldn't write to disk" constraint to allow CMs to write to $XDG_CACHE_HOME (defaulting to ~/.cache), as long as they only write data meeting the definition of "cache" (i.e. the user can delete random files at any time and the CM will not be adversely affected, except by wasting some network I/O).
Comment 1 Will Thompson 2010-11-10 08:38:46 UTC 
Gabble writes to $XDG_CACHE_HOME. I think this constraint can be considered relaxed.

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