Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:08 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: > [..] >>> Those scripts already exist and are in usage in the tools that are >>> mirroring pypi. They are not rsync but http calls, but that's about it. >> >> Ok, so that wheel has already been reinvented :-) > > That's historical. The HTTP interface existed already and is used by > PIP and al. People built mirroring scripts on the top of it, and used > the changelog file to get the updates. > > IOW, this works *today* with the existing software. > > Anyways, I guess I'll wait for the PSF decision to continue on that PEP. > > Last, if the PSF-maintained cloud-based system is preferred over what > we've worked on, > it would be great if it's still built on the top of an open protocol > that is not tied to a cloud system, because people will be able to use > it for their own PyPI systems. > > For instance, plone.org has a PyPI interface nowadays, so people can > upload distributions over there using Distutils. And it could have > mirrors as well. And accurate stats... :)
Sure :-) Sorry for spoiling the fun a bit, but like you said: this is a PSF decision to make and has more strings attached to it than "just" technical ones. Cheers, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 22 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
