Hi there,
On 07/05/2011 12:48 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Is there any interest in running an immutable mirror of PyPI on
python.org as a service to package users?
AFAIK, gocept is running such a mirror for the own purposes.
You might want to partner up with them.
I can put you in touch with Christian Theune/GoCept if you like.
I know Christian quite well, I can easily contact them. I hadn't
realized they were running an immutable mirror.
In general, I find the idea to use a potentially volatile service
for running buildout or similar tools a hazardous approach to
software configuration management, esp. in production environments.
Why don't you just download the packages you have tested and
ship them with your application, bypassing all the network
and usability issues of a dynamic catalog server ?
Yeah, that's one way to resolve this.
It's just a lot more work to do this during development than updating a
version number in a configuration file when you need a new version.
Concerning relying on networked resources for the installation of tested
packages, Linux distributions have been doing this for years; I don't
think that's a fundamentally flawed approach.
PyPI just is at this point where it works 99.99% percent of the time,
but it allows sudden surprises to pop up.
Regards,
Martijn
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