Re: Re: Base text files, re: IRC chat

> This proposal sound like the most elagant and flexible one yet...

Sigh, if only I'd thought of it...

>> Other than a lack of means to clean-up, there's no reason we could not
>> support an argument to specify where the MD is rather than just look
>> for one in the parent path. That lack of clean-up could suck a bit
>> though.

> Why no ablility to cleanup? The MD knows what *should* be in a WC and
> can therefore cleanup?
>
> You can clean the MD automatically as well by issuing a command to the
> MD to search below itself and remove any missing MC (or restore them???)

If a WC is moved away from it's original location and not inside the
enclosing folder then the MD cannot find it and cannot know whether or
not to purge content.

Thinking about what we want to store in an MD though, perhaps this is
not a problem. If the MD knows the details of the WCs it holds
content for and that knowledge is updated by the WCs when they are
updated then perhaps the MD can intelligently manage it's content
without scanning its WCs (and therefore doesn't need to know where
they live).

The MD can also list the WC knowledge to assist users administering
their MD should they need to do so.

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Talden
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