On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:12:01PM +0000, holger krekel wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 13:38 -0500, Carl Meyer wrote: > > One option is Holger's solution: scraping the current links and > > populating them as verified external links. We both don't like this > > because it involves PyPI misleading users about the status of those > > links, and you also don't like it because you want to deprecate verified > > external links too. > > Regarding the last bit, i indeed don't want to see the possibility removed > to register external links-with-checksum. PEP438 just introduced it and > i think it's sufficient and efficient for allowing maintainers to host > files externally while making it easy for end users choose to accept it > along with a slight loss of reliability that "--allow-externals" might > entail. Integrity guruantees of such external links and pypi-uploaded > files are strictly the same.
Well, not with MD5.
Marius Gedminas
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It's my understanding that although in principle TCP can handle huge
throughputs in practice many stacks haven't been optimized for that case, so
you have to either use a utility which opens multiple TCP sessions in parallel
or do something really radical like upgrade to the latest version of the linux
kernel.
-- Bram Cohen
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