[Yum-devel] urlgrabber fixes and other stuff...

[Ryan Tomayko]

Perfect. I'm pumped.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:26:39 -0700, Michael Stenner
<mstenner at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 07:39:42PM -0400, Ryan Tomayko wrote:
> > I'm finally starting to free up after a whole bunch of life altering
> > events (babies, houses, strikes, etc.).
> 
> I've been looking for something to poke at me, too.  I've gotten out
> of the habit of coding and I'd like to get back in to it.  Work got
> crazy for a while.  It still takes lots of my time, but I have enough
> to do some useful coding, so I should.
> 
> > I had a chance to dig into the urlgrabber issue [1,2] that I left
> > out there a few months ago related to urllib2 opener caching. I
> > believe I have the caching piece fixed.  Caching the openers speeds
> > things up considerably and maybe more importantly, seems to cut mem
> > usage in half; at least it does during the grabberperf.py tests. I'm
> > feeling good about committing this to the urlgrabber module but I
> > wanted to send something out first to make sure things aren't frozen
> > for anything. Are there any restrictions on committing right now? If
> > not, I can commit this immediately.
> 
> No.  No restrictions.  I think you and I dropped off the planet at
> pretty much the same time.  Nothing special has been happening.  I
> just haven't been working on it much.
> 
> > Also, Michael, how do you feel about urlgrabber right now? I'm feeling
> > like we're probably solid enough to put out an 0.1 tarball and make a
> > formal announcement.
> 
> I think I'd prever 2.9.x until we get the threaded stuff working, but
> otherwise, I think I agree with you.  It's a shame to let that
> threading stuff hold everything else up.
> 
> > We could submit it to PyPI at the very least.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > You had mentioned previously that there were a few other places you
> > would like to make an announcement...  I can't seem to find it now.
> 
> Yeah.  I have a list around here somewhere.
> 
> > Anyway, I have some time to put toward getting a grabber release out
> > if you can think of things to do. Having a few more eyeballs on
> > grabber should help yum out a bit too as we might be able to get
> > through a couple bug fix cycles before yum HEAD goes out.
> 
> Basically, I think it's pretty close to ready to go.  Lets hold off on
> the threading stuff for this release.  I'll need to think a little
> about how to handle the progress meter thing: whether to keep the old
> thing or to try and put in the new one which contains some of the
> threading code.  I'll try and take a look at that tonight.
> 
> Otherwise, you can just look around and try to find things that need
> tidying or fixing.  I don't think there's much, though.
> 
> Looking forward to getting back into it.
> 
>                                         -Michael
> 
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