On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On May 26, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > > </farnsworth> > > but seriously, at long last today it was my honor to throw the DNS switch to > move PyPI to the Fastly caching CDN. I would like to thank Donald Stufft for > doing much of the heavy lifting on the PyPI side, and to Fastly for > graciously offering to host us. What does this mean for everyone? Well the > biggest change is PyPI should get a whole lot faster. There are two major > downsides however. There will now be a delay of several minutes in some > cases between updating a package and having it be installable, and download > counts will now be even more incorrect than they were before. The PyPI > admins are discussing what to do about download counts long-term, but for > now we all feel that the performance and availability benefits outweigh the > loss. If anyone has any questions, or hears anything about issues with PyPI > please don't hesitate to contact me.
This is great news! Is this just the downloads? Or does it include the simple index too? Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig