Ryan Schmidt wrote:
So.... it sounds like people want this feature, so.... it sounds like it should be put into base, rather than having each GUI have to reimplement it. And if "port search" was too slow, and you came up with something faster, why don't we put that in base as well?
PortAuthority's method works by running "port list" on startup, caching the data, then iterating through that when the user searches for a term. It's faster than "port search" only because it doesn't have to launch a new process of tclsh when the user searches for a term. This method make sense for a GUI because it reduces the number of times it has to call out to the command-line tool, but it doesn't represent any sort of improvement in the command-line tool itself. Imagine having port run "port list" every time it started up...the result would be slower, not faster. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com