[Distutils] What to do about the PyPI mirrors

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Tue Aug 6 09:30:04 CEST 2013


On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:20 AM, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

>>> Well, now we have one breakage point more which keeps annoying me.
>> 
>> We do? How?
> 
> Installations that mention a specific mirror in their configuration file
> (such as f.pypi.python.org) will break when the DNS name is removed.

I don't see how this is relevant to his statement? He was talking about the CDN
and I was asking him to clarify.

> 
>>> Also, not everyone wants or needs auto-detection the way that the protocol
>>> describes it. I personally just hand-pick a mirror (my own, hah) and keep
>>> using that.
>> 
>> I agree that this is probably the best choice, and you can still do that.
> 
> See above. He did that, and the PyPI maintainers will break it.

I don't think anyones claimed that removing the names won't break things for
people who directly referenced them, but it's an important step that we do that.

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