[Catalog-sig] Mirror list detection/construction - PEP 381

[Jesus Cea]

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On 22/07/10 03:55, P.J. Eby wrote:
> Not a bad idea.  My main sticking point for adding this to easy_install
> is that it doesn't currently maintain any state like this, and there's
> no obvious place to put it.  Silently rewriting config files would be
> evil, and given that distutils has three layers of config files, it's
> never really clear which one you'd want to write to anyway.  Most
> likely, I'll need to just use "try the default or specified one first,
> then fall back to randomly-selected mirrors.

You can try all in parallel (threads!), choose the faster and send the
request to it. If that fails, try again, discarding that node. If you
have discarded all servers, start over again a couple of times. If that
fails, report failure to the user and surrender.

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