Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think some people are unaware of the fact that hosting themselves >> their packages can lead to problems when their websites are down. >> >> I'd like to propose these two very simple changes: > > Both sound fairly sensible to me. > > But why not do something a little less sensible, but a lot more > useful? If the package is hosted externally grab a copy and host it > locally. Then pip and friends can fall back to downloading from pypi > if the original download URL is broken.
If that's done in a way so that package authors can enable this functionality, that would be a possible solution as well. In the end, I think it's better to contact the package author to get the problem fixed. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 12 2011) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2011-06-20: EuroPython 2011, Florence, Italy 39 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
