Painfully Slow `updates` and `installs` about composer-repository HOT 6 CLOSED

Possibly datapoint -- composer appears to send a gzip Accept-Encoding header, which implies it can handle gzip content.

Array
(
    [Host] => packages.pulsestorm.net
    [Accept-Encoding] => gzip
    [User-Agent] => Composer/009fcb4262154c8ff926dcd42e4621c250927884 (Darwin; 10.8.0; PHP 5.4.21)
)

If gzip encoding is added to the server's configuration it may go a long way towards mitigating the performance problems.

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usage hint:

• the packages.json files dont get requested for normal installs (when you have a composer.lock)
• you only need to perform the update command, if you want to update the composer.lock file with new versions
• if the others check out the changed composer.lock, they can install the new versions via the install command, which again, does not do this request to the repositories, as all needed informations are inside the composer.lock.

some more informations:
Actually, normal little usage of packagist produces already >20M on cache files, so we need to think about: Would splitting every package into an own json improve or worsen the situation.

Also: there are specialized solutions for situations where speed is an issue. Its the reason of the https://github.com/researchgate/broker project, and as satis now supports the mentioned features too, a possible solution for this problem would be, that you setup an own satis with only the packages you need in your company.

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We (members of FireGento) will have an Hackathon right before Meet Magento in Germany and we will address this issue. We are in touch with the hosting company for a quick help and will maybe implement the mentioned splitting of json files.

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main problem of caching the package definitions is resolved in current master of satis composer/satis@f44c455

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Seems like this has been fixed over the past few days — closing.

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cant people close their own issues?

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