[Distutils] What to do about the PyPI mirrors

[Nick Coghlan]

On 4 August 2013 18:48, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> 5 days ago my branch to remove mirroring support from pip was merged into pip's develop branch. I don't see any direct support for mirroring in setuptools nor do I see any in buildout so I think it makes sense to hold off on the final deletion until after the only of the 3 major installers that seems to have any direct support for mirrors has released a version without it plus a bit of lead time for people to switch.
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> So I guess revised I'd say in roughly two months on Oct 1st the [a-g].pypi.python.rg DNS names will be redirected to front.python.org and then roughly 2 months after pip has released version 1.5 with the removal of the mirroring support they will be deleted along with last.pypi.python.org.

Sounds good to me. You may not love this next part though: since the
mirror naming scheme was originally defined in a PEP
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/#mirror-listing-and-registering),
I think its retirement should also be published that way.

The PEP doesn't need to be long, it should just say that PyPI will
continue to support the mirroring protocol (and perhaps even mention
that the current preferred mirroring tool is bandersnatch rather than
pep381client), but the CDN is considered to replace the public mirror
network and those DNS names will all be retired.

Cheers,
Nick.

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