Am 09.10.2008 17:18 Uhr, Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
Did you consider offering to host and manage PyPI *instead* of creating
this mirror?
What is the background for this question? Right now we have the problem
that we must have the eggs and source code archive available for doing
buildout - we don't depend on the metadata and the PyPI software itself.
Are you asking because your server setup is too limited or needs further
resource concerning reliability and availability?
I'm concerned that PyPI will fork, and that users have to chose between
your installation, and PyPI, in particular for publishing packages
(I assume that initially, uploading to your infrastructure might not
be possible, but what you describe sounds like a good starting point for
a package repository).
Nah...no fear...there is no intention to fork PyPI - especially PyPI
will remain the master and the replication provides _only_ the download
support. There is absolutely no intention for providing _any_ kind of
upload possibility - never ever. Consider being it like the CPAN mirrors.
I don't think the machine running pypi.python.org is too limited, but
in order to provide the availability you complained is missing, having
full-time personnel managing it would be useful (not because it needs
constant maintenance, but so that somebody is there who can respond
quickly).
If there would be an easy way to replicate the PyPI backend (no idea
about the implementation - any RDBMS involved) then there are likely
volunteers taking over the resources for a mirror of the current backend.
So if you would host PyPI on these machines, it might be that the
mirroring software becomes unnecessary, and that the added redundancy
and maintenance staff can provide what you need without creating
a separate repository.
Please tell us how a distributed PyPI backend would look like..one
requirement would be that the software and database part (if any) have
to be in a good shape - the last time I tried the PyPI software I have
not had the best impression.
Andreas
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