[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] PEP for distutils

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:41:12PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> - can a RDF-based database can possibly handle such a graph ?
> - would it make sense for PyPI to query the doap server to get those
> dependency infos ?

Good RDF tools can handle really big databases: DBpedia
(http://dbpedia.org/) is 116 million triples.  On the other hand, I
don't think the running PyPI installation should query some other
server because it'll add another point of failure.

--amk