On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:34 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 going to spell disaster for the coffee industry, as you no longer have to take a coffee break when re-running a buildout. Thanks! //Lennart _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
