[Chicken-janitors] Re: #236: extend "list" command for henrietta CGI

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#236: extend "list" command for henrietta CGI
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 Reporter:  felix           |       Owner:  felix   
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  minor           |   Milestone:          
Component:  infrastructure  |     Version:          
 Keywords:  henrietta       |  
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Changes (by felix):

  * owner:  => felix
  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 I'm not sure how to handle this efficiently. We will have to do an `svn
 ls` (which we already do), and then walk the egg directories, doing more
 `ls` commands, etc. Unfortunately this doesn't scale at all in the case of
 "whole repository-info" style actions (like listing the available
 versions) - recursive `ls` operations are slow.

 Recently, I have implemented `name=<name>&mode=meta` to support at least
 retrieving the meta-file for an egg (this isn't installed yet, see the
 `scripts` subdirectory in the chicken-core repository); this should work
 for any given version.

 Listing available versions sounds feasible, though. I would recommend
 against providing much more: it's not so much the size of response, but
 the time needed to process the file-list of a repository that is already
 large and likely to get larger.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.irp.oist.jp/trac/chicken/ticket/236#comment:3>
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