2011/9/27 Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com>: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:40, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 1/ stability and high availability >> >> How are opinions on setting up country-specific PyPI mirrors? The lag >> to the US is pretty severe in Poland, and I suspect my buildouts would >> benefit from having a server in Poland. Now, of course, it could be >> called x.pypi.python.org, but maybe we should have aliases such as >> pl.pypi.python.org as well? >> >> I have no strong opinion on the issue, what do others think? > > Wouldn't CloudFront make this moot?
If we state that PyPI completely depends on Amazon I guess yes. But imho, it's saner for the long term to have a community-driven protocol for mirroring so we don't rely on third-party vendors. > > I'm not clear I follow the plans, but it appears that CloudFront would > provide greater availability with little or no changes to clients. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Fulton > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
