The dynamic package pages are almost ready for prime time. The searching and page display are pretty fast now. This is the result of making the sql searches more efficient and using speedy-cgi-perl (the perl scripts are persistent which removes the perl startup delay and having to reconnect to the db on every invocation).
There are a few things that still need fixing/testing: The dependencies pages are slow. I still need to look at modifying the sql searches to make them faster. Why do the pages refresh in Netscape when a page is finished loading? This is very annoying. You can get a list of all packages beginning with a string by using ^string, e.g. ^a to get all packages beginning with 'a'. Is this a common enough request to warrant having a seperate form for it? What is the response like from different parts of the world? Send the results to debian-www. You can gain access to the new pages by using http://www.debian.org/distrib/new_package After some code cleanup I'll add the source to the webwml CVS. Jay Treacy
