[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39479] 'pkg -forge list' takes 56.5 seconds

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #16, bug #39479 (project octave):

Found a workaround you can do now!

If you download the Octave Forge file list from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases,
it has a complete file list that you can parse with a simple regex. (And
there's even an embedded JSON list with additional metadata support, for if &
when Octave gets JSON support.)

I added it to my little pkg-replacement toy.
https://github.com/apjanke/octave-packajoozle/blob/master/inst/%2Bpackajoozle/%2Binternal/OctaveForgeClient.m#L149-L165

It's a biggish file to parse, so it still takes a bit, but it brings the `pkg
-forge list` time down to under 1 second, with about ten lines of code.

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