[Yum-devel] External downloader

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:57:11 -0500 (EST)
Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas at redhat.com> wrote:

> > Doesn't it matter a lot to fix this for 1.0? If so then the better
> > solution would be to work out why we are doing a lot of small reads
> > +writes and try to merge them at that layer.
> 
> I believe urlgrabber users never see individual reads and writes
> (there's no download-to-fileobject API), so merging is not necessary.


I missed some context in this discussion but:
  urlgrabber's urlopen() returns a file object.

-sv