On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Lex Spoon wrote:

> It sounds like the UI should be tweaked here, not the documentation.
> How about giving it a good default cache setup and then leaving this
> info out of the main dialogs that a new user will see?

I don't think hiding the cache is a good idea - I constantly find 
myself opening it because I know I'll be able to find the version I 
want there.  I've been thinking about going in the other direction, and 
building the UI around the cache - since all the packages within it are 
easily accessible with full metadata, it can be browsed in much better 
ways than just looking through lists of files.  All saving and loading 
would effectively happen through the cache browsers, with remote 
repositories just being used to feed into the cache or to accept 
published packages from it.  Especially now that the package sizes are 
more under control this may be a reasonable way to go.