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

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:42 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> If it were me, I'd just IP firewall the offendors. There's not need for this
>>> kind of behaviour if there's an acceptable mirror protocol available...
>>
>> Well not yet... but the PEP should be finished sometimes this week,
>
> There was an acceptable mirror protocol available for more than a year
> now, irrespective of any PEP you are working on. Claiming that only with
> the PEP, true mirroring becomes possible, disregards the work that Jim
> Fulton and I put into coming up with a workable solution.

Right, sorry about that.

The PEP works on complementary needs (like client-side failover on
mirrors) and will also
try to summarize in a section how mirrors and client apps should
behave for every aspect,
reffering to all previous works on that, since they have already
provided solutions for an optimal
access to pypi.

Tarek

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