On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 20:10, Ian Bicking <[email protected]> wrote: > Suggestions: > > Instead of http://pypi.python.org/mirrors how about > http://mirrors.pypi.python.org (or pypimirrors.python.org, etc) -- > then the mirror list can be hosted separately, and the likelihood of > both the mirrors and the main PyPI server being down are much lower.
+1 > Admittedly, this makes it harder for other indexes to provide their > own mirrors It does? Why? I must have missed something. :) It does make it easy to provide local caching though. If you want to cache pypi you can just make a local name for mirrors.pypi.python.org pointing to a site that provides just one mirror: your own local cache. -- Lennart Regebro: Pythonista, Barista, Notsotrista. http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
