[development] file caching abandoned?

[Moshe Weitzman]

Steve Rude wrote:
> I have done much testing with memory based object caching using 
> memcached and I think it would be nice if there was the ability to 
> choose what type of caching you wanted (memory/file/db) and have the 
> cache.inc functionality basically an abstraction layer that the storage 
> mechanism can be taken care of by other include files ( e.g. 
> cache-memcache.inc cache-file.inc.  The same way that the database 
> abstraction works.
> 

see the current release of drupal. specifically see where cache.inc gets 
included during bootstrap. you can plug in own cache.

karoly asked for a maintainer for file cache. lets keep this thread focused 
there.