[Distutils] Current Warehouse Problems

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> Primarily it did that so that it could dynamically reject file uploads
> without having to buffer them entirely in memory or on disk. Without
> something asynchronous to the Python process then we end up having a hard
> limit set in whatever the WSGI server is that buffers files to disk or
> rejects file uploads over a certain size.
>

​Sounds like a webserver feature (being able to stream the request​ body)
rather than a constraint that flows from the types of syscalls it use.
Doesn't gunicorn (prefork) allow streaming the request body?



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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