[squeak-dev] Making trunk repo faster

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed May 23 18:04:08 UTC 2012


On 23.05.2012, at 19:49, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Accessing the repository gets slower and slower due to the ever increasing number of versions there.
> 
> To make it faster we could remove old package versions. Say, everything older than a year (but keep at least one version of each package). We could move those to an "attic" repository.
> 
> Sounds good? Other ideas?
> 
> Sounds good.  I would have attics for each year.  The history identifies the publication date so finding the right attic for a given version is fine.  One attic is OK since attic access is presumably rare and  hence performance not a premium.  But attic will be worse than trunk as soon as older packages are moved there.


Igor's suggestion is worth considering. One could make a new trunk repository for each release.

To me, multiple attics sounds better than multiple trunks. But one attic sounds better than multiple, because, it's simpler, and YAGNI, and we're going to buy a faster machine soonish ;)

- Bert -

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