Hello Guix :),

Sorry for the late followup :/

Hope your summer is going well!

I'm sending this email to follow up on the search functionality for packages.

With Chris's help I managed to make some changes that make the query for searching packages within the Guix Data Service faster.

I don't know if the search is fast enough to be included on the Guix website, but I thought it would be good to share.

Search packages page in the test version of the website that Chris deployed: guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search

If you'd want to have a look at the code changes: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/data-service.git/commit/?id=ee613cdb305cc1e443135d311aead6c799902b8a this is the commit where the changes start.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Best regards,

Danjela

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 21:47, Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> wrote:

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> On berlin we’ll have to keep using nginx I guess (there’s too much
> config in there), but perhaps Varnish is an option for the Data Service.

To be clear, Varnish is not a replacement for nginx (it does not even
speak HTTPS), the typical deployment is nginx -> Varnish -> backend. It
introduces another "hop" though.

I'm not sure if it's worth the added complexity here, just thought I'd
mention it. It's a programming language for caching/proxying logic.