Do you need urlgrabber?

[Anders Blomdell]

On 2014-09-22 16:11, Tomas Radej wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Pykickstart uses urlgrabber on multiple occasions to download URLs
> either into memory or as files in filesystems. I would like to know
> if you need this particular library, or if it can be replaced by e.
> g. pycurl or even urllib. The reason is that the packaging team is
> planning to drop support (and probably even ownership) of
> python-urlgrabber as of Fedora 22.
Well, I kind of like the mirroring support in urlgrabber, but besides 
the pain to rip it out from where I use it, I could live without it :-(

> I am invested in this matter due to my participation in the 'Python 3
> as default' initiative [1], and pykickstart's Python 3 compatibility
> [2], which is better achieved without urlgrabber than with it, is a
> part of it.
Does better mean simpler in this case?

/Anders
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