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

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> chris patti <cpatti at black-racer.atg.com> (cp) writes:

cp> 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.
>> 

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

Mirroring is best done by rsync, anyway. In that case it doesn't matter
what method is used for user access.
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