On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> well, I think we need more than a rsync script at some point. > > The question is if you want a push or pull mechanism. z3c.pypimirror > implements the pull implementation and performs an incremental update > in the sense of rsync in a reliable way.
You don't want a push mechanism, but you want a way to list the mirrors at PyPI, their states, and know if they are good mirrors or not. That is what a ping mechanism provides. So the point is not about being able to provide a reliable "copy of files program", I can use for that a "wget --mirror" or "rsync -r" and I don't need to write a program for this. On the other hand maybe the XML-RPC thing is a little heavy but we sure need to know how "fresh" a mirror is. Maybe if the last-modified header is maintained on the mirror this could be enough for PyPI and other third-party application to know about it. -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
