[Distutils] Fwd: The state of PyPI

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I understand why you don't want to rely on a proprietary solution.

It's not a proprietary solution. It uses standard technologies, such
as HTTP and XML-RPC. If you say that the specific URLs to access are
proprietary: true, but so would be a CloudFront mirror (which also
requires proprietary API to get the data into CloudFront).

> It's a reverse proxy.  You point it at s3 and at a web server and it caches.
> Of course, it has aspects that are specific to it's implementation.

That's not my understanding as to what the project to get PyPI onto
CloudFront is doing (IIUC).

Regards,
Martin