[Distutils] Current Warehouse Problems

[Donald Stufft]

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro> wrote:
> 
> Probably none of my damn business but why does Warehouse use gevent/eventlet? Does it really need them? Are there hosting constraints that severely limit available RAM (so threads/processes aren't an option)?
> 
> 

Primarily it did that so that it could dynamically reject file uploads without having to buffer them entirely in memory or on disk. Without something asynchronous to the Python process then we end up having a hard limit set in whatever the WSGI server is that buffers files to disk or rejects file uploads over a certain size.

Other than that, it doesn’t need it.


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