[Feature Request] Add a way to cache modules per-version

[DarkIntaqt]

By adding a request cache for a module per its version, the code execution time would decrease immensely for known packages.
This could be an optional flag.

[BePo65]

What would you like to cache? As we don't know in advance what information the remote repository will return, IMHO we must request the server ever time again. Even if some information won't change, some will (e.g. latest available version).

Or perhaps I simply didn't understand your idea 😄.

[DarkIntaqt]

Yeah so I took a look at the returned data from the registry and it looks like it's probably not the best idea to cache that and this issue can probably be closed.

Overall, I thought that when using [email protected] the author, license and such shouldn't change within in the same version, so it could be possible to cache those. I was looking for a way to speed up pipelines, as I use license-report for a project of mine which uses a lot of packages.

[BePo65]

AFAIK most of the time is spend on creating a connection to the remote repository. So it will not make much of a difference, if we get more or less data from the server. So I think that caching some of the data will not speed up the process too much for you.

If you are not interested in the remote data, you could set the repository config element to an empty string to avoid license-report to connect to the server at all. Or you could wrap a script around the call to license-report that will use a configuration with a set repository path only every other day.