Venus thoughts

[Mary Gardiner]

Some notes:

 1. Memory usage.

    For live.linuxchix.org, spider.py uses about 7MB of memory and
    splice.py (using htmltmpl) about 15MB. Much better than mainline
    Planet once your cache gets large, but ideally it would be less. I
    will try and do this at some point.

 2. A feature Planet supports that I can't figure out how to
    do with Venus: individual configuration of template files.

    In Planet it was done like so:

    [/home/mary/pathtofile/atom.xml.tmpl]
    items_per_page = 20

    Venus will treat this as an attempt to fetch a URL.

 3. A small incompatibility with config files: Venus asks you to specify
    template_directories and template_files separately, Planet accepted full
    file paths without template_directories.

-Mary