[Catalog-sig] Recent PyPI changes

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>
>> We (Richard Jones and me) made a number of changes to PyPI:
>> - there is now a way to request release information in JSON,
>>  see http://tinyurl.com/38lefsp
>> - it's possible to run the code base locally using sqlite,
>>  see the README.
>> - there is now demodata available (see README); people won't
>>  need a full database dump anymore to develop on the code.
>
> All very cool :-)
>
>> In addition, pypi.appspot.com is likely to become mirror E
>> (perhaps B instead, so that E can have an A record).
>
> I don't understand this...
>
> What do E, B and A mean here?

The new pypi mirror schem has a naming scheme

X.pypi.python.org as documented in PEP 381

The values of X are the sequence a,b,c,...,aa,ab,... a.pypi.python.org
is the master server

Paul