On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: [..] >> I am just arguing that I don't think it's the best solution, compared to what >> was started e.g. a community network of mirrors. > > I've heard you, but still disagree. I think we'll just have to > leave it at that.
Sure. Although, I am pretty sure we will come up with a consensus here at some point :) [..] >> So why don't we implement the best solution ? Maybe we could use a wiki page >> and work on a synthetic overview of the pros and cons. > > Again: I don't want to compete against the PEP. I'm looking > for a solution that's easy to implement and doesn't get in the > way. That's all. Nothing more. > > If you can come up with a solution that's ready in a month or two, > I'll happily wait. If I understood Martin correctly, he did some work and things are looking good; so I'll let him answer. Adding the failover part in distribute/pip shouldn't be too long though, falling back to a mirror is a small change. What's important also, is to make sure z3c.pypimirror includes the server-side work, so existing mirrors can be upgraded. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
