New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Jun 17 17:46:45 UTC 2011
Julian Edwards <julianf.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
>On Friday 17 June 2011 16:51:32 Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Sure. I did the URL by hand and not with a script. I had always
>assumed
>> that since LP supports batch sizes up to 300 using then was
>supported,
>> just not part of the standard U/I.
>>
>> This is, BTW, relevant since this feature will, in an Ubuntu context,
>> always have large package lists. Trying to batch through them 75 at
>a
>> time isn't very feasible.
>
>I think that someone who wants to batch through pages that big is
>lacking
>functionality somewhere else. In this case I think it's the poor
>search
>critera that currently exist on that page and we plan to fix that.
>
>Also, batching through smaller pages will always be a bit quicker than
>rendering massive ones all at once. The current default batch size is
>pretty
>quick to render.
>
>Thanks
I generally agree with this, but I do sometimes scan the whole Main or Universe lists on MoM to see if there's anything interesting. I doubt I could reduce this to some kind of search criteria. I don't know what will be interesting until after I find it.
Scott K
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