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/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
