On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > I think some people are unaware of the fact that hosting themselves > their packages can lead to problems when their websites are down. > > I'd like to propose these two very simple changes:
Both sound fairly sensible to me. But why not do something a little less sensible, but a lot more useful? If the package is hosted externally grab a copy and host it locally. Then pip and friends can fall back to downloading from pypi if the original download URL is broken. Jacob _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
