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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> An interesting thought for future optimization...  an XML-RPC catalog
> server designed for this use case could in fact do all the computation
> server-side, resolving dependencies and evaluating version constraints. 
> Heck, in theory, it could cache packages' external links, and simply
> hand back to the caller a complete list of candidate URLs to choose for
> downloading.

You mean something like

select f.filename from release_files f,releases r where
f.name='setuptools' and f.name=r.name and f.version=r.version and not
r._pypi_hidden;

This gives

             filename
----------------------------------
 setuptools-0.6c5.win32-py2.3.exe
 setuptools-0.6c5-py2.3.egg
 setuptools-0.6c5.win32-py2.4.exe
 setuptools-0.6c5-1.src.rpm
 setuptools-0.6c5.win32-py2.5.exe
 setuptools-0.6c5.tar.gz
 setuptools-0.6c5-py2.5.egg
 setuptools-0.6c5-py2.4.egg


That would be very easy to add to the RPC server, and
would be quite efficient also.

> That way, most activities would take only one server
> round-trip to complete, if the client sent a list of everything it
> expects to need, and the server includes everything that the server
> expects the client to want due to those things' dependencies.
>
> The main obstacle to implementing such a service today, is that it would
> have no way of knowing what dependencies to look for, without sniffing
> the contents of .egg files.

For that, I would definitely need code contributions.

Regards,
Martin