Re: Testing needed - patch for pearweb to enable REST generation on the fly
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:13:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Testing needed - patch for pearweb to enable REST generation on the fly | ||
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On Thu Apr 28, 2005 at 12:5910AM -0400, Greg Beaver wrote:
> I've committed the necessary code for generating REST files from
> existing releases/packages/categories/maintainers, and attached is a
> patch that will enable dynamic generation/removal of REST files as a
> normal part of the website maintenance. It adds a miniscule amount of
> post-processing to the modification of data distributed by pearweb, but
> provides a tremendous benefit the rest of the time, as users with PEAR
> 1.4.0 will not tax the server nearly as much. At most, a single
> download will occur for each user/file combination, unless the file is
> modified. After that, only header checks will be performed. I suspect
> this will alleviate a part of the burden on pearweb, and will speed up
> the client-side as well.
Please be aware that you cannot reliably store any data inside the
document root, because the cron job that updates the website will drop
everything that it does not know about, which is basically everything
that does not come from cvs.php.net.
- Martin