From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T04:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyforge & mirrors

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 03:33 +0900, Jan Svitok wrote:
> On 11/20/06, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:17 -0500, Tom Copeland wrote:
> > > > isn't it time to build some kind of redunancy into gem?
> > gem install --source http://gems.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk some_gem
> 
> Just an idea: what about issue a new version of sources gem with all
> the mirrors added to it?
> 
> Pros: automatic failover - the gem will be installed/updated from any of them
> Cons: slower operation (more index updates), more network traffic

Another tricky bit is that currently if someone wants to stop serving
gems we can just remove them from the mirror redirect.  Storing the
server list on the client complicates that a bit.

Also, with a centralized list we can balance the load, so if it's too
heavy on one of the gems we can reduce the redirections to the mirror.

But really, neither of those problems have come up yet, so they may not
be a big deal.

Yours,

tom