Is urlgrabber a premature optimization?

Wouter van Heyst larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org
Fri Jun 24 01:29:53 BST 2005


On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:09:52AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2005, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:

<snip>

> It looks like the best thing to do is switch to effbot's library, and
> remove urlgrabber.  I'll pull in those patches.
> 
> I'm inclined to move a copy of it under bzrllib so packagers can just
> install bzr without clobbering any other libraries.
> 
> > Urlgrabber isn't current available as part of Debian or Ubuntu, which is
> > blocking bzr from entering those distros.  Rob Weir is willing to
> > package urllib, but if it's not needed, we can save him the trouble.
> 
> Doesn't urllib come with python?

I guess Aaron had urlgrabber in mind.

Wouter van Heyst




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