<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 June 2010 13:20, Michael Crute <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcrute@gmail.com">mcrute@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <<a href="mailto:mal@egenix.com">mal@egenix.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> As mentioned, I've been working on a proposal text for the cloud idea.<br>
> Here's a first draft. Please have a look and let me know whether I've<br>
> missed any important facts. Thanks.<br>
<br>
</div>What about a set of volunteer mirrors of PyPi similar to the way CPAN<br>
and Linux distributions handle this problem. <a href="http://pypi.python.org" target="_blank">pypi.python.org</a>? That<br>
approach eliminates any cost for the PSF and might ultimately result<br>
in better reliability. With the volunteer mirror system you would<br>
still statically generate the files and just make them available for<br>
rsync then setup a page to allow mirrors to register (see CPAN). If<br>
you take this approach I would be happy to donate a mirror to the<br>
pool.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br><br>From the document:<br><br>"Projects are underway to enhance PyPI<br>
in various ways, including a proposal to add external mirroring (PEP<br>
381), but these are all far from being finalized or implemented."<br><br>Just saying "mirroring" is not a solution in itself - that also takes time and effort. <br><br>Michael<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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