On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:46, David Robins <pyt...@davidrobins.net> wrote: >> Some reasons to have PyPI host packages have already been mentioned in >> this thread: it makes mirroring easier > > Uhm, mirroring PyPI, no. Because those packages aren't there. Setting > up your own package server, yes. It's not exactly the same thing. > Plone has set up their own mirroring of all the packages needed to set > up Plone, to avoid having problems with downed servers etc. That's not > a PyPI mirror, it's something else.
It's their own independant package repository also because they want to have a "known good set of packages" like Turbogears or Zope has. And that's why at some point, package installers will probably need to merge serveral indexes that are not mirrors. This is what I've described in PEP 381 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381 Notice that I've started this PEP right after I've set up plone.org's PyPI system at http://plone.org/products because in my mind, every framework should have its own package repository w.r.t the central PyPI. Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
