Re: pear is down
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:36:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear is down | ||
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Jon Parise wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:51:25AM +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
>
> > > In addition, having the PEAR repository available over a more
> > > "standard" distribution mechanism would allow for easier mirroring.
> >
> > You mean such as plain file downloads? :)
>
> Something like that. =)
>
> > Mirroring the pear.php.net web site is not easy, we'd need to start
> > generating static pages, and it requires xmlrpc support. In the long run
> > we probably need to mirror it, but download mirrors are a quick win.
>
> Right, I was only referring to download mirrors. Aside from perhaps
> the "/get/Package" functionality, I don't see a recent to mirror (and
> decentralize) the PEAR web site.
The /get/Package functionality can simply produce a redirect.
- Stig