> I would prefer the second, particularly as I think the caching solution > lends itself to mirroring, which would also improve availability.
I think this conclusion is wrong: Jim already has a mirror infrastructure that anybody can run, without the need of running that on the central server. > - From my complete ignorance of the underlying architecture: the polling > solution would stay pretty current if there were an extremely cheap way > to ask for the latest "transaction ID" on the cheeseshop, or if the > query could fetch only registrations newer than the last poll time. Are > such queries possible over the XML-RPC interface? Yes; you can ask for all changes since a certain UTC time. People shouldn't invoke that every UTC second, though - once a minute is fine. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
