0.50rc1 feedback
Gustavo Niemeyer
gustavo at niemeyer.net
Mon Dec 11 15:10:50 PST 2006
> Couldn't smart just after downloading the list files do an ls on the
> remote directory (or Python direct equivalent) and check for the
> existence of the files?
We can't do that for a number of reasons:
- Just listing files isn't enough. We need information inside
each file.
- Many protocols don't support listing directories (e.g. HTTP
without WEBDAV)
- Even if we do have a protocol capable of listing files, and
can get slices of specific files to query them, it'd be
somewhat expensive to list and retrieve small blobs from
thousands of packages
For these reasons we have indexes.
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Gustavo Niemeyer
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