[Distutils] Fwd: The state of PyPI

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 27.09.2011 13:12, schrieb 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 personally don't believe the CloudFront project is feasible - IMO,
> it just won't work. This is because there needs to be both dynamic
> content (at least for uploads) and static content; CloudFront can
> only mirror the static content.

That's the intent. To serve the static content.

> However, since this all forms a single
> web site, integrating them will be either infeasible or pointless.

There are 2 sites, "simple" and "pypi".  I would only host the simple
site in a CDN. I assume the mirrors are only mirroring the simple
site. pypi would, I assume, either stay where it is now, or be evolved
separately.

Jim

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