On 27-02-13 16:26, Donald Stufft wrote:
2. External links decrease the expected uptime for a particular set
of requirements. PyPI itself has become very stable, however
the same cannot be said for all of the hosts linked that the
toolchain
processes. Each new host is an additional SPOF.
A very good practical illustration: my colleague cannot "pip install
mercurial" right now as the mercurial.selenic.com website is down for
hours now.
All the download links on http://pypi.python.org/simple/Mercurial/
point at things like
http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.5.tar.gz
I'm very happy to have a local buildout egg cache, otherwise the
mercurial website's failure would bring a couple of my buildouts to a
grinding halt.
A couple of those project that don't bother to put their packages on
pypi can bring your pip or buildout *down* quite often.
Reinout
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