On Aug 4, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 August 2013 18:48, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> 5 days ago my branch to remove mirroring support from pip was merged into >> pip's develop branch. I don't see any direct support for mirroring in >> setuptools nor do I see any in buildout so I think it makes sense to hold >> off on the final deletion until after the only of the 3 major installers >> that seems to have any direct support for mirrors has released a version >> without it plus a bit of lead time for people to switch. >> >> So I guess revised I'd say in roughly two months on Oct 1st the >> [a-g].pypi.python.rg DNS names will be redirected to front.python.org and >> then roughly 2 months after pip has released version 1.5 with the removal of >> the mirroring support they will be deleted along with last.pypi.python.org. > > Sounds good to me. You may not love this next part though: since the > mirror naming scheme was originally defined in a PEP > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/#mirror-listing-and-registering), > I think its retirement should also be published that way. > > The PEP doesn't need to be long, it should just say that PyPI will > continue to support the mirroring protocol (and perhaps even mention > that the current preferred mirroring tool is bandersnatch rather than > pep381client), but the CDN is considered to replace the public mirror > network and those DNS names will all be retired. OTOH that PEP was never accepted and is currently a draft but if you really think it should be a PEP I can write one up. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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