[Distutils] Fwd: The state of PyPI

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:07 AM, 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?

Wouldn't CloudFront make this moot?

I'm not clear I follow the plans, but it appears that CloudFront would
provide greater availability with little or no changes to clients.

Jim

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