[darcs-devel] [issue839] make global cache turned on by default

[Zooko]

New submission from Zooko <zooko at zooko.com>:

I think it was a good idea of droundy's to leave global cache [1] default to off
in darcs 2.0.0, but I am beginning to think that it might be a good idea for it
to be on by default in darcs 2.0.1.

Nowadays, it is not unusual for applications to use up space in a ~/.appname
directory, provided that they so state in the manual and ideally at "install
time" or "setup time" in the user-visible output.

Darcs-2 has very good performance nowadays, and performing well in more
different use cases, as I think a global cache achieves, by default, would be a
welcome addition.

(Indeed, for the use case of doing a full darcs get over the network using
hashed-format repositories [2], it already performs so well without a global
cache that adding a global cache hardly helps.  I guess this shows that we
should measure before we decide.) 

[1] http://darcs.net/manual/node5.html#SECTION00510000000000000000
[2] http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-April/011783.html

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title: make global cache turned on by default

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