On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:20 AM, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: >>> Well, now we have one breakage point more which keeps annoying me. >> >> We do? How? > > Installations that mention a specific mirror in their configuration file > (such as f.pypi.python.org) will break when the DNS name is removed.
I don't see how this is relevant to his statement? He was talking about the CDN and I was asking him to clarify. > >>> Also, not everyone wants or needs auto-detection the way that the protocol >>> describes it. I personally just hand-pick a mirror (my own, hah) and keep >>> using that. >> >> I agree that this is probably the best choice, and you can still do that. > > See above. He did that, and the PyPI maintainers will break it. I don't think anyones claimed that removing the names won't break things for people who directly referenced them, but it's an important step that we do that. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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