On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:20 AM, martin@v.loewis.de wrote:
Well, now we have one breakage point more which keeps annoying me.
We do? How?
Installations that mention a specific mirror in their configuration file (such as f.pypi.python.org) will break when the DNS name is removed.
I don't see how this is relevant to his statement? He was talking about the CDN and I was asking him to clarify.
Also, not everyone wants or needs auto-detection the way that the protocol describes it. I personally just hand-pick a mirror (my own, hah) and keep using that.
I agree that this is probably the best choice, and you can still do that.
See above. He did that, and the PyPI maintainers will break it.
I don't think anyones claimed that removing the names won't break things for people who directly referenced them, but it's an important step that we do that. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA