An FTP based Python Module repository (was Re: Imagemagick)

[chris patti]

Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> writes:

>     chris> One of the reasons for CPAN's success in the Perl world is that,
>     chris> simply, it's an FTP archive.
> 
>     chris> Thus, people can and do mirror it.  This creates a multi-site,
>     chris> persistent cache of the entire library, so when the one site where
>     chris> module Frobnitz.pm comes from goes down, the world doesn't suffer.
> 
> Why couldn't a CPAN-like thing be a web site?  Web sites can (and are)
> mirrored all the time.
> 

There's no reason why it couldn't be, actually.

-Chris
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