On May 28, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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!
> 
> I always test pip installation from PyPI "just in case" after
> uploading a new package, so the new cache delay still leaves some time
> for a coffee break (until Daniel gets the cache invalidation
> integrated :/).  But yes, so many hoorays for this \o/

I already enabled Cache Invalidation.

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