On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: >... > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=381620
Oh dear. I just looked at this bug report. The basic problem is that they're talking to a "dumb" HTTP server. To get anywhere, they need a custom server first. It sounds like that hasn't even been started, let alone rolling out clients to start using it. I'm not really comfortable dropping a comment here/there without knowing the full scope of their system. I wouldn't want to give a bad recommendation. Subversion was initially designed around WebDAV, and a specific model designed on top of that. A decade of experience later, we/CMike designed and built the HTTPv2 revamp. The short is: lots of thought around the problem space. For example, it looks like they need to do a bunch of format negotiation. Use an Accepts: header, or build that into some kind of manifest system? Today, they use a manifest. Maybe the client should just have that, rather than fetching it? ... who knows. There is certainly work that can be done against a dumb server, and it looks like they're going through all the possibilities. I saw in one of the bugs, they have 140 Mb total b/w, and about 80 of that is available for downloads. So it isn't quite as gruesome as Justin notes, but his point is valid: the primary issue is to shift load off their servers. The ASF ran into that a decade ago, which is why the mirrors are mandated. Cheers, -g ps. and I'm actually a bit astounded that they haven't (yet) built a custom server for their p2 system
