Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New feature at the mirror + request for help

[Dustin Sallings]

On Mar 22, 2004, at 21:36, James Blackwell wrote:

> No, I still don't have an arch browser yet. All of them seem to have an
> achilles heel -- they either require a revision library or require 
> building
> a cache. While I haven't tried anything that requires building a 
> cache, I
> can tell you that building a library of all archives is basically 
> already
> too big a job for SC.
>
> Does anybody have a php based archive browser that requires building
> neither a library nor a cache?

	Why do you have such specific limitations?  I've got about 190MB of 
arch mirrors that I bring into ViewARCH with about 230MB of cache.  
That's enough to let me review any patch, revision, diff, file, etc... 
that's been checked in to any of those archives.  I can't imagine how 
you'd do that without a cache of some sort.  tar files aren't random 
access, so you'll never have O(1) access to the files without indexing 
them some other way.

	I've got ViewARCH's cache build set up as part of my normal mirror 
update process.  It makes the tool far more useful.

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