[wine] Soliciting suggestions for AppDB

[Mitchell Mebane]

Chris Morgan wrote:

>The patch needed some minor changes and clarifications.  I haven't
>received a resubmission yet.
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>On 6/27/05, Mitchell Mebane <mmebane at ev1.net> wrote:
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>> David Lee Lambert wrote: 
>> On Wednesday 08 June 2005 08:32 pm, Mitchell Mebane wrote:
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>> I'm putting together a Summer of Code proposal for working on the AppDB.
>>I've been talking with Chris Morgan, and he has a few suggestions, but I
>>was looking for more. Does anybody have any features they'd like added
>>to the AppDB, quirks they'd like worked out, or things of that nature?
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>> I have some ideas about the AppDB, but I've been working on some of them 
>>myself, and others really need the approval of the WinHQ webmaster more than
>>anything. Still, I'd like to hear what other people think of them:
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>>1. The AppDB, Bugzilla and the Wiki ought to send last-modified information 
>>for most of their pages. This would speed things up, in some cases, for 
>>dialup users, but the real advantage would be as protection against a 
>>slashdotting or onslaught of AOL users. Many of the pages also send other 
>>headers that prevent caching of positive lookups.
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>>Today I sent a patch to the AppDB maintainer to do this for images, which
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>>probably the biggest performance hit (they cause the AppDB main page to take
>>about 30 seconds to load over a dialup connection). However, almost any 
>>page in each of these databases could in theory be cached. Bugzilla bug 
>>display pages already display a "Last modified" datum in the text of the 
>>page, and so do Wiki pages (bug 2889 mentions this).
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>>Several of the AppDB tables already have TIMESTAMP columns, so I was
>>planning 
>>to write some code to just gather them all together and send the latest one 
>>as the last-modified date. The only problem is that if a page contains an 
>>item which is then deleted, its timestamp will go backwards.
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>> David,
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>> I don't see this patch on wine-patches. Did you send this in?
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>> --Mitchell Mebane
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>> -- 
>>I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking
>>up something and finding something else on the way.
>>-- Franklin P. Adams
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If you don't hear from him, please send me his patch and your notes and 
I'll take a look at it.

--Mitchell
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