On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:53 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That is what a ping mechanism provides. > > Hmm. If the mirror provided a file "last-changed", it would be very > easy to find out whether the mirror is still running. Mirrors not > providing that file could be ignored.
Right, please take a look at my last version http://wiki.python.org/moin/PEP_374 it tries to go in that direction _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig