[Catalog-sig] SourceForge mirroring

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Richard Jones<r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/08/2009, at 10:10 AM, Mark Ramm-christensen wrote:
>>
>>  And now that big sections of SourceForge run on python, using
>> packages from pypi, we've got a vested interest in making sure that
>> there is a high availability global mirror network for pypi packages.
>
> I'm all for high availability of PyPI. Fortunately the current hosting runs
> pretty reliably, but we've already realised that some people are expecting
> it to be available 100%. This can really only be achieved through mirroring.
> Of course there's other benefits to mirroring (as someone living on "the
> wrong side of the Pacific" I can vouch for the coolness of having local
> Sourceforge mirroring).
>
> There's a bunch of PyPI mirroring efforts already; "pypi mirror" in Google
> shows up some.

I've been working for this in PEP 381 - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/
And we started the implementation in PyPI code with MvL during the last Pycon,

It's not far from ready, but I had other topics to finish. But if
there's interest
we can finish its implementation, so sourceforge could be one of those mirrors.

>
>
>     Richard
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