> random.pypi.python.org - This would just be a round robin to all of the > mirrors, the goal being to (theoretically) evenly distributing the > incoming requests among them.
It's less useful as it sounds. Clients are supposed to check whether the mirror they use is out of date. If they get a random mirror, they may end up with an unusable one. > fresh.pypi.python.org - This would point towards the mirror that last > synchronized with PyPI. The goal being that people can use this to have > a higher chance of having all of the packages synced with PyPI (since > the other mirrors have had a longer time since sync, they will have a > larger window for having missed packages/versions). That's not implementable using our current DNS hosting service (I'm not sure that round-robin is implementable even). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
