Re: Deprecate External Links
Reinout van Rees <[email protected]>
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On 27-02-13 16:26, Donald Stufft wrote: > 2. External links decrease the expected uptime for a particular set > of requirements. PyPI itself has become very stable, however > the same cannot be said for all of the hosts linked that the > toolchain > processes. Each new host is an additional SPOF. A very good practical illustration: my colleague cannot "pip install mercurial" right now as the mercurial.selenic.com website is down for hours now. All the download links on http://pypi.python.org/simple/Mercurial/ point at things like http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.5.tar.gz I'm very happy to have a local buildout egg cache, otherwise the mercurial website's failure would bring a couple of my buildouts to a grinding halt. A couple of those project that don't bother to put their packages on pypi can bring your pip or buildout *down* quite often. Reinout -- Reinout van Rees http://reinout.vanrees.org/ [email protected] http://www.nelen-schuurmans.nl/ "If you're not sure what to do, make something. -- Paul Graham"