[49005] trunk/dports/PortIndex.quick

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:36:04AM -0700, William Siegrist said:
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2009, at 14:36, wsiegrist at apple.com wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 49005
>>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/49005
>>> Author:   wsiegrist at apple.com
>>> Date:     2009-04-01 12:36:01 -0700 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Mark the PortIndex.quick as binary to avoid the large diffs
>>
>> What *is* PortIndex.quick?
>>
>
> Its the new index file in 1.8 that stores offsets to each port in  
> PortIndex. We now generate it server-side along with PortIndex. The  
> change emails were very large since every line in PortIndex.quick changes 
> frequently.

And the purpose of this file is to drastically help speed up dependency
calculations; see

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18259>

Bryan


>
> -Bill