[Yum-devel] [UG] Urlgrabber 3.9.0 - pycurl-tastic

[Tim Lauridsen]

On 07/31/2009 10:32 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
>  A urlgrabber announcement. urlgrabber 3.9.0 is now released. Think of 
> this as a beta-ish release. Most everything is working - but not all 
> the unittests check out and I'm sure I've messed up some other bits. 
> However, it is functional for yum and koji so far and I've tested A 
> LOT of the basic items. Please file bugs (for now) in red hat's 
> bugzilla( http://bugzilla.redhat.com) under python-urlgrabber.
>
> The big change for this release is porting the backend over to using 
> libcurl/pycurl. It took a fair bit of work to preserve the existing 
> urlgrabber api and make things sane/behave with pycurl. However, I 
> believe it is working out. No modifications were made to any program 
> which uses urlgrabber and that sure looks like maintaining the 
> interface is correct and happy.
>
> You can get this release from:
> http://urlgrabber.baseurl.org/download/urlgrabber-3.9.0.tar.gz
>
> and I've built  some pkgs for f12/rawhide here:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1570788&name=python-urlgrabber-3.9.0-3.fc12.src.rpm 
>
> and
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1570788&name=python-urlgrabber-3.9.0-3.fc12.noarch.rpm 
>
>
>
> To see the changes you can look in the changelog in the tarball or you 
> can look here:
> http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=urlgrabber.git;a=summary
>
> I'd like to reiterate - this is a bit of a test version so please give 
> it a try, tell me what is broken for any app that uses it and we'll 
> get it put back together. But don't be shocked if not everything works 
> perfectly.
>
> let me know what breaks,
> -sv
>
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Great work :)

Tim