[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] distribute D.C. sprint tasks

[Tarek Ziadé]

We removed the RPC thing, and added a freshness date principle, to
make thing simpler.

see http://wiki.python.org/moin/PEP_374

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com> wrote:
> On 11.10.2008 18:24 Uhr, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> Day 1 is almost over,
>>
>> We worked on two elements so far: the mirroring thing, and the terminology
>> one
>>
>> these are early drafts,
>>
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonPackagingTerminology
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PEP_374
>>
>>
>
> I think we should also investigate how other repositories like CPAN
> or the Ruby world deals with mirroring. A notification mechanism appears
> fragile to me. I believe that the mirrors should remain "dumb"
> in order to keep the complete system simple and solid - less moving parts
> are better than more. I really have a bad feeling about the approach as
> described in your PEP.
>
> Andreas
>



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