2009/3/22 Lennart Regebro <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 20:10, Ian Bicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> Suggestions: >> >> Instead of http://pypi.python.org/mirrors how about >> http://mirrors.pypi.python.org (or pypimirrors.python.org, etc) -- >> then the mirror list can be hosted separately, and the likelihood of >> both the mirrors and the main PyPI server being down are much lower. > > +1 > >> Admittedly, this makes it harder for other indexes to provide their >> own mirrors > > It does? Why? I must have missed something. :)
If you want to tell an installation to use another location (e.g., http://mysite.org/packages), with the current proposal you could have a list of mirrors at http://mysite.org/packages/mirrors, while with a domain name it's unclear where the mirrors would go. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
