On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 27.09.2011 13:12, schrieb Jim Fulton: >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:40, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> 1/ stability and high availability >>> >>> How are opinions on setting up country-specific PyPI mirrors? The lag >>> to the US is pretty severe in Poland, and I suspect my buildouts would >>> benefit from having a server in Poland. Now, of course, it could be >>> called x.pypi.python.org, but maybe we should have aliases such as >>> pl.pypi.python.org as well? >>> >>> I have no strong opinion on the issue, what do others think? >> >> Wouldn't CloudFront make this moot? > > I personally don't believe the CloudFront project is feasible - IMO, > it just won't work. This is because there needs to be both dynamic > content (at least for uploads) and static content; CloudFront can > only mirror the static content.
That's the intent. To serve the static content. > However, since this all forms a single > web site, integrating them will be either infeasible or pointless. There are 2 sites, "simple" and "pypi". I would only host the simple site in a CDN. I assume the mirrors are only mirroring the simple site. pypi would, I assume, either stay where it is now, or be evolved separately. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
