[Catalog-sig] Recent PyPI changes

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 27.07.2010 10:52, schrieb Chris Withers:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> We (Richard Jones and me) made a number of changes to PyPI:
>> - there is now a way to request release information in JSON,
>>   see http://tinyurl.com/38lefsp
>> - it's possible to run the code base locally using sqlite,
>>   see the README.
>> - there is now demodata available (see README); people won't
>>   need a full database dump anymore to develop on the code.
> 
> All very cool :-)
> 
>> In addition, pypi.appspot.com is likely to become mirror E
>> (perhaps B instead, so that E can have an A record).
> 
> I don't understand this...
> 
> What do E, B and A mean here?

Paul already explained most of it. An A record is a database
entry in the Domain Name System, mapping a name to an IP address.

Regards,
Martin