[MacPorts] #15395: Use primary port category for fetched distfile layout

[Randall Wood]

Arg. Failure to reply to all...

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Randall Wood
<randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Anders F Björklund <afb at macports.org> wrote:
>> Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>
>>> On May 22, 2008, at 1:56 AM, William Siegrist wrote:
>>>> Could I get a review of this patch from someone with some base
>>>> experience to make sure this wont break anything. I believe it'll
>>>> be seamless for end users and is the simplest change to make the
>>>> mirror layout the way I want it to.
>>>
>>> Why would people be browsing the mirrored files? Wouldn't the
>>> interaction with the site mostly just be 'port' downloading a
>>> mirrored file?
>>
>> And couldn't you make something like MPWA to browse the files,
>> instead of having to wade through all the lowlevel yourself ?
>>
>> Or, for a low-tech solution, setup some symlink directories.
>> "category/foo -> ../foo", then you can browse category/foo/ ?
>>
>> --anders
>>
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>
> There does remain a performance hit for large flat directories no
> matter how the user sees it (through a web server which takes the hit
> or on the user's own machine).
>
> --
> Randall Wood
> randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
>
> "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
> All the rest is just philosophy."
>



-- 
Randall Wood
randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com

"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
All the rest is just philosophy."