[Distutils] Fwd: The state of PyPI

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:40, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1/ stability and high availability
>
> How are opinions on setting up country-specific PyPI mirrors? The lag
> to the US is pretty severe in Poland, and I suspect my buildouts would
> benefit from having a server in Poland. Now, of course, it could be
> called x.pypi.python.org, but maybe we should have aliases such as
> pl.pypi.python.org as well?
>
> I have no strong opinion on the issue, what do others think?

I think it's a good idea to have the closest mirror,.

One long-term goal I had was to add a client-side geloc code that
would prefer the closest mirror.

IOW, with your IP and the mirrors IP, pick the closest IP

>
> //Lennart
>



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