On 4 August 2013 19:18, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 4 August 2013 18:48, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> 5 days ago my branch to remove mirroring support from pip was merged into >>> pip's develop branch. I don't see any direct support for mirroring in >>> setuptools nor do I see any in buildout so I think it makes sense to hold >>> off on the final deletion until after the only of the 3 major installers >>> that seems to have any direct support for mirrors has released a version >>> without it plus a bit of lead time for people to switch. >>> >>> So I guess revised I'd say in roughly two months on Oct 1st the >>> [a-g].pypi.python.rg DNS names will be redirected to front.python.org and >>> then roughly 2 months after pip has released version 1.5 with the removal >>> of the mirroring support they will be deleted along with >>> last.pypi.python.org. >> >> Sounds good to me. You may not love this next part though: since the >> mirror naming scheme was originally defined in a PEP >> (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/#mirror-listing-and-registering), >> I think its retirement should also be published that way. >> >> The PEP doesn't need to be long, it should just say that PyPI will >> continue to support the mirroring protocol (and perhaps even mention >> that the current preferred mirroring tool is bandersnatch rather than >> pep381client), but the CDN is considered to replace the public mirror >> network and those DNS names will all be retired. > > OTOH that PEP was never accepted and is currently a draft
Alas, the nominal status of the packaging PEPs isn't always a great guide to their real world usage :P > but if you really > think it should be a PEP I can write one up. I think we're at a point where overcommunicating is definitely better than the alternative :) In this case, what I suggest we do is put the new PEP to Accepted with a Replaces: header for 381, and then set 381 to Superseded. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
