> I am familiar with an open source project called Radmind. It > maintains machines be keeping a local transcript with all of the files > and "overloads" on it. When you modify the file system you diff the > changes into an overload and put them on the server.
That's still a lot of terminology which I don't understand, and have no intuition for, perhaps because English is not my native language. I give up trying to understand - just to give you an idea: What's a "transcript of files"? How do you "overload" on it (why is "to overload" used with the preposition "on")? How do I "diff" a change "into" "an overload" (which now is a noun, it seems)? > So, if someone does an "incorrect" search, easy_install checks to see > first if it has the latest "file". If not, it then replaces its local > index. Then the search happens locally, not being going back and > forth to the server. I think this brings us to the real issue: you asked whether this would be a bad idea to suggest that? I now think "perhaps not bad, but unhelpful, unless you also contribute an implementation of it". It's a change to setuptools, which is still mostly a one-man-show, (IIUC), so proposing ideas in general is futile (as for most software with a single author - including PyPI); the single author cannot possibly implement all the ideas people have. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
