[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] High-availability for PyPI, mirroring infrastructures?

[Jim Fulton]

Switching to distutils

On Aug 13, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Tarek Ziade wrote:
...
> Besides this feature, there's one feature we started to add on  
> zc.buildout but could be put in setuptools's PackageIndex as well I  
> believe :
>
> Adding timeouts for url openings, to speed up the processing. For  
> instance, when several urls are visited for
> a given package, and when a server pointed by one of the url is  
> down, it can last forever.


Speaking of speed, if someone wants a project, it would be really nice  
someday to make requests in parallel, either using threads or using an  
async-based library like Twisted.

Jim

--
Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation