| This is indeed something to consider! Not as an excuse for bad behavior but rather to consider infrastructure and expectations: The packages might be cached locally. There might be many servers – a CDN and/or mirrors. Each server might have connection limits. (The machine downloading the packages miiiiiight be able to serve as a mirror for others.) If these are true, then it’s altruistically self-interested for everyone that the downloader gets all the packages as quickly as possible to be able to get stuff done. I don’t know if they are true. I’d hope that local caching, CDNs and mirrors as well as reasonable connection limits were a self-evident and obviously minimal requirement for package distribution in something as arguably nation-sized as Python. And… just… everywhere, really. |