[Catalog-sig] PyPI reverse download

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> One aspect I still don't understand is why you'd want to upload
> the whole PyPI mirror image in one go.

Of course I don't want that. That's 14GB, and it would be silly
to upload it all at once.

> Wouldn't it be better
> to just upload the distribution files separately ? (I don't
> think any of those is more than a few 10MB in size)

The largest file is 20MB, and the limit in the GAE url fetcher
for the response size is 1MB. So I can't fetch some of the files.

> Another aspect I don't (yet) understand is why these uploads
> would have to be initiated from outside the main PyPI server.

I want to initiate them from the mirror.

Regards,
Martin