On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 understand where you're coming from but, .. I think it's saner to rely on proven technology than to invent our own protocol. NIH? BTW, in looking at PEP 381 (yeah, I know, I'm a bad person for waiting so long) I have lots of reservations about the protocol: - It's potentially complex to implement efficiently, especially given that: - We've had problems with mirrors getting out of date, meaning that, potentially, clients should check multiple indexes, - It either requires extra dns calls or relies to heavily on the last mirror, which is probably likely to be the least reliable. Life is short. We don't have to invent this ourselves. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
