[tahoe-dev] would the Volunteer Grid be an appropriate host for our dependencies?

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Terrell Russell
<terrellrussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> is there a way to daisy chain the dependencies?
>
> from tahoe-lafs grid first...
>
> then, further fallback to hosted apache files?

Yes.  Setuptools is the tool doing the downloading of dependencies,
and it already does this.  The problem is that if it queries the first
source and that source responds v e r y  s l o w l y then the build
process becomes very slow.  So this is a concern about the Volunteer
Grid's performance, not about its longevity.  (Is "longevity" the word
we settled on to mean "your files are still there later"?)

Regards,

Zooko