Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> And we happen to have this network already: lots of people >> will host a PyPI mirror as soon as it's easy to set one imho. > > You must be careful that the mirrors are properly managed and administered, > though. Having stale/dysfunctioning mirrors is worse than having no mirrors > at > all. > It is likely that some people will setup a mirror and then "forget" to take > care > about it. Like our buildbots really.
Right, it's that administration overhead I was referring to. Perhaps we should just let the users decide: a) they use the default PyPI access (which we then enhance by caching the content in the cloud) b) they setup their easy_install or zc.buildout to pull data from a mirror network by enabling a configuration option Since implementing option b) will require updating existing package tools on the client side anyway, the extra configuration shouldn't be a problem. Option a) requires no changes whatsoever on the client side. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 16 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 32 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
