initial implementation of selective output caching

the PackageCmd and PatchCmd classes are now cached on their
first request.

note that this is incomplete, as the PackageCmd is also currently
used to print non-static information as well (when a package name
doesn't find an exact match and it does a query).

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/patchtracker/Conf.py b/patchtracker/Conf.py
index 954001e..448f595 100755
--- a/patchtracker/Conf.py
+++ b/patchtracker/Conf.py
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ pts_index_file = "pts-index.json.gz"
     by the PTS system
 """
 
+caching = True
+""" Should caching be enabled? """
+
+cachedir = "cache"
+""" The location of the output cache directory.  This directory contains
+    cached output from system commands or other nontrivial calculations
+    for faster and less resource intensive re-use
+"""
+
+cachecompress = False
+""" Should compression of cache data be enabled? """
+
 try:
   from localconfig import *
 except ImportError: