[Catalog-sig] start on static generation, and caching - apache config.

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Another good reason is to allow static
> implementation, which would be far more scalable in the long run.

ATM, from my machine, xml-rpc requests to PyPI are taking about .27  
seconds.  This is only a little less than regular page requests.   
With the current API, It would require at best 3 requests to get all  
of the distribution URLs.  Presumably, with a change to the API, we  
could get this down to one request, but that's still a long time  
given the demand I expect on PyPI in the future.

It would be so much simpler to just publish a static page for each  
package that setuptools could parse.  I'll try to prototype this.

Jim

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