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>For a lark I pointed the plugin to the WordPress Plugin SVN. It got about 1/4 of the way through retrieving the list of plugins and died (script timeout).

With many people accessing it, yeah it will necessary to pre-compile a default list of a full revision weekly.

Or to be sneaky for now you can set a flag in options after each curl fetch and restart bbpress if you calculate approaching 30 seconds.

Both ways sound like headaches.

I wonder if the trac cache is faster/more efficent?

ie.

https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php

vs.

https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php?format=raw

I wonder if trac can be tricked to pre-gzip it all to download beforehand as a bundled revision? It’s got to compress wonderfully as it’s entirely plain text and repeating php functions.

ps. be sure to take advantage of gzip support in curl / fsockopen – I have some code I wrote somewhere to do this if you need ideas