On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: >>> 2. It's important to reduce the number of round trips. >> >> A colleague today suggested that the best way to reduce round trips >> is to give each machine a local copy of the index, the same way >> Debian apt works: you do 'apt-get update', and then have a local >> copy of the catalog that you can build against. No roundtrips >> at all (except for the one to update the local catalog), for the >> expense of being out of date if you don't manually update the >> catalog. > > Yup. This might be a really nice way to go. It would be especially > nice if a client could contact PyPI and ask for new data since a > given time. I imagine that this request could be as cheap as the > requests we have now, unless a client was very out of date.
That sounds like RSS. Doug _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
