Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-04-01 Thread John J. Lee
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > And of course I'll reiterate the same line I always do: the Cheese Shop was > set up by a volunteer, enhanced by some other volunteers and exactly > nothing more will get done unless more volunteers offer their time. PyPI has "just worked" for me,

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Jones
Paul Boddie wrote: > Richard Jones wrote: >> And of course I'll reiterate the same line I always do: the Cheese Shop >> was set up by a volunteer, enhanced by some other volunteers and exactly >> nothing more will get done unless more volunteers offer their time. > > Sure. I wasn't criticising the

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Paul Boddie
Richard Jones wrote: > > And of course I'll reiterate the same line I always do: the Cheese Shop was > set up by a volunteer, enhanced by some other volunteers and exactly > nothing more will get done unless more volunteers offer their time. Sure. I wasn't criticising the Cheese Shop, though: it's

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread John Nagle
Richard Jones wrote: > And of course I'll reiterate the same line I always do: the Cheese Shop was > set up by a volunteer, enhanced by some other volunteers and exactly > nothing more will get done unless more volunteers offer their time. Yup. That's why CPAN is so much better. Ook!

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Jones
Paul Boddie wrote: > On 30 Mar, 09:05, "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If something as widely used as eggs is going to have a single point of >> failure like the Cheeseshop, we can't have it going down. >> >> I'm sure there are other solutions, but my suggestion is simply to >> have mirrors.

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Paul Boddie
On 30 Mar, 09:05, "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If something as widely used as eggs is going to have a single point of > failure like the Cheeseshop, we can't have it going down. > > I'm sure there are other solutions, but my suggestion is simply to > have mirrors. It works for Debian, after