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Re:A Study of Malicious Code in PyPI Ecosystem by blueflow on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:28PM (#37435786)
Why would the Chinese have their own pypi mirror software? I think they are running the same software as western companies.
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Re:A Study of Malicious Code in PyPI Ecosystem by pxeger1 on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:02PM (#37436251)
Probably because accessing PyPI directly is slow, because of the Great Firewall.
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Re:A Study of Malicious Code in PyPI Ecosystem by woodruffw on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:17PM (#37437289)
I think the GP is asking why Chinese engineers would have their own software for mirroring, not why they'd have their own mirrors.

(I believe most Chinese mirrors use bandersnatch[1], like most non-Chinese mirrors.)

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch

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