On 1 September 2012 00:38, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The current syntax is actually hard to machine-parse, with lots of language-specific overrides and weird options that combine in non-obvious ways. Not to mention that it overrides the simple link syntax... I wish when we'd renamed Image: to File: that we'd left the magic behavior only on the Image: alias so that links would be rationalized. :(
PROBLEM: Thumbnails are taking up a lot of disk space. SOLUTION: Completely revamp image syntax in a backwards-incompatible manner.
There's something excessive there ...
Is it really the case that the server can't get atime of the images? iIf it can, then we *know* which thumbs may as well be trashed and regenerated as and when someone cares. If it can't, why not?
- d.