Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Thoughts?
I've been thinking that *.pypi.python.org should always
yield A records, not CNAMEs.
+1
It may be that this becomes difficult with Google appengine,
though.
There's no rule without exception :-)
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Given the fragility of this it seems that we might want to consider
alternative mirrorlist discovery mechanism.
As a fallback, you can of course probe addresses on a binary search, or
even just select a random mirror in the first place. (If you overshoot
the list, you just decrease the max on
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Jesus Cea j...@jcea.es wrote:
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On 21/07/10 21:20, P.J. Eby wrote:
At 01:10 PM 7/21/2010 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Given the fragility of this it seems that we might want to consider
alternative mirrorlist
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On 22/07/10 05:39, P.J. Eby wrote:
Are you actually suggesting I add threads to *easy_install*?
I'm not sure I could handle that kind of excitement. ;-)
Well, all threads would execute the same 5 lines of code, only
connecting with a 10 seconds
Thoughts?
I've been thinking that *.pypi.python.org should always
yield A records, not CNAMEs.
It may be that this becomes difficult with Google appengine,
though.
Regards,
Martin
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:20 PM, P.J. Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote:
At 01:10 PM 7/21/2010 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Given the fragility of this it seems that we might want to consider
alternative mirrorlist discovery mechanism.
Non-random selection is tougher to implement, since you'd
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On 21/07/10 21:20, P.J. Eby wrote:
At 01:10 PM 7/21/2010 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Given the fragility of this it seems that we might want to consider
alternative mirrorlist discovery mechanism.
As a fallback, you can of course probe addresses
At 02:52 AM 7/22/2010 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
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On 21/07/10 21:20, P.J. Eby wrote:
At 01:10 PM 7/21/2010 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Given the fragility of this it seems that we might want to consider
alternative mirrorlist discovery mechanism.
As
At 05:10 AM 7/22/2010 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
On 22/07/10 03:55, P.J. Eby wrote:
Not a bad idea. My main sticking point for adding this to easy_install
is that it doesn't currently maintain any state like this, and there's
no obvious place to put it. Silently rewriting config files would be
