Hi, would it be possible to add python3 subpackage to urlgrabber? Looking at the code, it seems that it should be Python 3 compatible (perhaps with few minor corrections). Thanks.
(similar librepo request: https://github.com/Tojaj/librepo/issues/17 )
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How are we standing with this? If you need any extra hand with this, feel free to use me :)
Patch submitted upstream: http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2014-August/010675.html
jzeleny told me that python-urlgrabber is to be dropped in f22, so this bug may be unnecessary.
@jzeleny - why? urlgrabber contains several features, which are nowhere to find (range requests, proxy support, throttling).
He said that if someone requires the functionality, they have to take the ownership, but it should be dropped from all main packages.
(In reply to Miroslav Suchý from comment #11) > urlgrabber contains several features, which are nowhere to find (range > requests, proxy support, throttling). All of them are implemented by libcurl and available via pycurl, which already supports Python 3. urlgrabber, as it is implemented now, is only a redundant wrapper on top of pycurl.
Yes, that would be the reason. Most of the simple use cases are available via pycurl, for the more complex ones we have librepo. To avoid any possible misunderstandings, we will not be dropping urlgrabber from Fedora. We will just minimize the active development and maintenance and discourage people from using it. Even if someone is willing to take the package and carry on, the effort spent on its maintenance would be wasted for the reasons listed above.
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