[Zope-dev] proposal: serving static content faster

[Marc Lindahl]

On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 04:09  AM, Chris McDonough wrote:

>  but the adminstrative
> headache of selectively associating content with "the right" cache
> manager just seems like too much of a practical burden to make people
> bear.

Having just done this again for 3 sites, I heartily agree - headache! ;)


>   It would just be way easier to let people be "sloppy" about it
> by:
>
> a) letting people associate content with multiple cache managers.
>
> b) creating a cache manager multiplexer (which might expose a bit
>    of policy for dynamic cache selection).
>
> c) creating a different cache management architecture that provided
>    caching services based more on policy than on a direct
>    association (ala CMF's CachingPolicyManager).
>
> But I really don't have the time to do the work implied by any of the
> enumerated options.  I'll hopefully be able to wait until somebody else
> gets suffiently indignant about the situation and takes it upon
> themselves to implement one of the alternatives. ;-)