Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 02 Jul
2007 08:10:14 -0700):
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
The problem is, that a change would break existing installations,
as they can not cope with such a new format. Feel free to propose
improvements, but you need to keep in your mind, that any supported
FreeBSD release has to be able to install packages with only the
package tools available in the basesystem.
The point is though that there's a lot of unnecessary bloat, which adds
to longer text file sizes, and thus slows down smarter parsers written
in C, Perl, or Python.
How do you determine it is bloat and not needed by some tool? For
example the recent speed improvements for package registration grep
for the dependencies in the +CONTENTS files. The checksums are needed
for integrity checking, and the rest is needed management stuff.
portupgrade is taking some informations out of the +CONTENTS files
too. I assume similar management tools do the same.
My point being is that the +CONTENTS file is bloated a lot by
useless lines, and it would help speed up package processing if it was
clipped or reduced somehow I would think.
You need to provide numbers. Without them this is pure speculation.
And you have to explain, why the current parsing routines can not
be speed up for the current format, maybe the implementation is
just a little bit outdated compared to todays parsing knowledge...
Ok. I take your challenge and will have preliminary results in 2-3
days. Are Excel formatted spreadsheets ok (thinking graphs)?
Graphs are provided best as pictures (on a website). Not everyone is
able to read excel files on his FreeBSD system.
Bye,
Alexander.
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