Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread James A. Treacy
Drat. I forgot to move this to debian-www. On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:30:02AM -0500, Jay Treacy wrote: Web discussions are held on debian-www@lists.debian.org It would be a good idea if you notified people before you started such work so you don't waste your time. We have not implemented

Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20001124 10:35]: Also, we were contemplating switching to dynamic pages. I don't know if this is a good idea performance wise. Since the content is updated daily static pages don't make a lot of sense. Why? Disk space doesn't matter, but performance

Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 05:03:10PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20001124 10:35]: Also, we were contemplating switching to dynamic pages. I don't know if this is a good idea performance wise. There is no question that static pages are more efficient.

Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: Also, we were contemplating switching to dynamic pages. I don't know if this is a good idea performance wise. There is no question that static pages are more efficient. The question is whether we can provide dynamic pages

Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20001124 19:48]: We could have cool dynamic stuff using only CGIs if we had a non-US server carrying both archives, But we don't have such a server. Then let's find a server. Is there any official person or way to approach a sponsor, or can I simply go ahead

Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 07:26:55PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: We could have cool dynamic stuff using only CGIs if we had a non-US server carrying both archives, But we don't have such a server. Then let's find a server. Is there any official person or way to approach a sponsor, or can

Re: arch-dependent searches and downloads

2000-11-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20001124 20:40]: I think some Perl code could find out appropriate versions for each architecture. That's easy; the scripts in my home on master do that already. Then why did you say: My script looks at the Packages.arch file to get the proper version. You