Add ability to generate a "views" manifest file based on results from ViewLoaders

[mpwoodward]

(Moved from http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/ticket/734)

Add ability to generate a "views" manifest file based on results from ViewLoaders?.

ViewLoaders? can be a slow process depending how many files and folders it has to transverse. This is fine for development but for production -- it's time we shouldn't have to wait.

My idea is to allow ViewLoaders? to generate a "view manifest" file that lists all the views. You could generate this manifest file from the dashboard or dashboard API and configure your ViewLoader? to use a generated manifest file only on certain environments (like production). You would make the manifest generation part of your build process.

This would be perfect for Mach-II on Google App Engine -- not to mention it would improve loading on non-GAE apps if you used this feature in productions.

This feature would be available the dashboard API.

http://groups.google.com/group/mach-ii-developers/browse_thread/thread/5968fb86e69d7749