Re: [pydotorg-www] Proposal: dev.pypi.python.org

2011-04-03 Thread Richard Jones
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:14 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> That sounds awesome, especially for testing tools that have to interact >> with pypi. > > Actually, for testing tools, I think the requirements are quite > different: you want concurrent runs of the same test case on multiple > machines,

Re: [pydotorg-www] Proposal: dev.pypi.python.org

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Foord
On 04/04/2011 00:14, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: That sounds awesome, especially for testing tools that have to interact with pypi. Actually, for testing tools, I think the requirements are quite different: you want concurrent runs of the same test case on multiple machines, so you need to make sur

Re: [pydotorg-www] Proposal: dev.pypi.python.org

2011-04-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> That sounds awesome, especially for testing tools that have to interact > with pypi. Actually, for testing tools, I think the requirements are quite different: you want concurrent runs of the same test case on multiple machines, so you need to make sure they don't collide. So for that use case,

Re: [pydotorg-www] Proposal: dev.pypi.python.org

2011-04-03 Thread Michael Foord
On 01/04/2011 23:39, Richard Jones wrote: Hi all, How about we set up a second instance of PyPI on dev.pypi.python.org. It will have a completely separate database (except for users) and package/docs store. We'd want the user list to be identical or there could be problems. Having the dev syste

[pydotorg-www] Proposal: dev.pypi.python.org

2011-04-03 Thread Richard Jones
Hi all, How about we set up a second instance of PyPI on dev.pypi.python.org. It will have a completely separate database (except for users) and package/docs store. We'd want the user list to be identical or there could be problems. Having the dev system use the primary system's user database mig