[devpi-dev] Re: Thoughts on root/pypi and it's implications

Good thoughts Florian. Thinking about devpi as a cache, there's one important use-case that I'm not sure a cache would solve, and that's having an offline replica... something a developer (or deployment environment) could use when isolated from the network, such as during a PyPI outage or when developing on the plane or similar. Having a fully-functional replica of package index that doesn't require hitting the upstream servers is an important feature of devpi.