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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Definitely.  I check out the libraries, mostly because I am frequently
offline.  I do actually use a caching server for Python dependencies,
actually, for Python development--and it works quite well, but the audience
for that program is programmers, not hardware designers.

Adam Wolf

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 1/13/2016 12:20 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > I can test this on OS X this week.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > (I am excited for Jon's git plugin roadmap.  If Github works well for
> > other people, awesome, but I am not a fan of depending on proprietary
> > software, and based on the chatter on the email list and Dick's
> > suggestion that users install and configure a webserver/caching
> > proxy/modify /etc/hosts suggests to me we have room for improvement.)
>
> Please keep in mind, nginx is just a suggestion not a demand.  This is
> how Dick resolved his github performance issues.  It is not a shooting
> offense.  I would suggest that if your not interested in using some type
> of caching proxy such as nginx that you clone the footprint repos to
> your hard drive and configure your fp-lib-table accordingly.  No one is
> being force to use anything they are not comfortable using.  Without
> some type of caching, the github plugin will only ever be as fast as
> your internet connection no matter how well we optimize the code.
>
> A git plugin could be interesting.  We'll see how it pans out in
> practice.  The only thorny issue may be using the git library depending
> on the platform.
>
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> > Cofounder and Engineer
> > W&L
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Wayne Stambaugh
> > <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Would someone please test this patch on osx and on a linux distro
> that
> >     uses a libcurl variant built against ntls or gnutls.  I will test it
> on
> >     windows.  Please read the comments below carefully and do not reply
> to
> >     Dick directly.
> >
> >     -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >     Subject: [PATCH] github_plugin -> curl -> openssl thread safety
> >     Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:07:35 -0600
> >     From: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> >     To: Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>>, jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> >
> >     Guys, this brings in the necessary locks required to make openssl
> thread
> >     safe. I think it completes the migration to libcurl.  As I reported
> to
> >     Wayne, even on linux I was seeing evidence of unprotected critical
> >     sections of code.  Going down to 6 threads merely swept the problem
> >     under a rug but did not fix the fundamental problem.  This does.
> >     Six threads still seems about the optimal mix of chaos and
> throughput.
> >
> >     You may want to bring back the FindOpenSSL.cmake script which this
> must
> >     use, but I got by with CMake's default.  Please just do that as a
> >     separate patch since I am not responsible for it.  You could also do
> any
> >     Windows specific fixups as a separate patch also, as it does not
> >     attribute stuff to me that I did not do, and vice versa.
> >
> >     HTH in fulfilling your vision for the github plugin.  The locking
> does
> >     not affect the speed by much, and multiple threads are still a
> >     tremendous speed boost.  I still would never use the plugin without
> >     nginx, and I think that should be made more clear to those who wine
> >     about speed.  There is an awful lot of whining, and none of these
> people
> >     even seem to know about nginx.  nginx + github plugin is even faster
> >     than the PCB_IO plugin.
> >
> >     I think I am loading about 80 libraries in 2 seconds.  Only two of
> those
> >     are PCB_IO, the rest are github.
> >
> >     PLEASE MAKE THIS KNOWN!
> >
> >
> >     *) Switch to static linking of libcurl and on linux and windows and
> also
> >        statically link in only required portions of openssl.
> >     *) Add the required thread locks which openssl needs.
> >     *) Remove the get curl version call from BASEFRAME since it pulls in
> >     curl and openssl
> >        into every derived wxFrame class link image.
> >     *) Remove curl function from PGM_BASE, switch to atexit() instead.
> >     Anything in PGM_BASE made the singletops bigger.
> >     *) Tested on Linux only.
> >
> >
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