curl-and-python

Re: PycURL release?

From: Christopher Warner <cwarner_at_kernelcode.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:46:57 -0700

I should summarily note that if anyone at all, wants to help bring PyCurl
along so that we all may benefit more eyes will definitely be useful.
Primarily so that a subsequent release is not only backwards compatible with
missed released version targets but also so that it is wholly usable.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Christopher Warner
<cwarner_at_kernelcode.com>wrote:

> Yeah I haven't tested these yet, but the problem is making sure that
> whatever is released from trunk has all the backward changes that have
> happened since a last release. This is going to take some time to
> walkthrough the change logs and vet. Obviously my small window to work on it
> is not enough. At this point we need a couple of eyes to make sure
> everything is up to snuff but if you want to help with that let me know.
>
> I do recall reviewing your patches however.
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Wim Lewis <wiml_at_omnigroup.com> wrote:
>
>> Last I read on this mailing list, Christopher Warner had offered to do
>> some work to get a new release of pycurl out, but wasn't sure how much time
>> he'd have to give to the project. Is there anything I can do to help this
>> release happen? It would make my life easier if patch #3170067 were in the
>> shipping version of pycurl.
>>
>> There was also this thread:
>> http://curl.haxx.se/mail/curlpython-2010-05/0001.html
>> about the desire to keep pycurl's version numbering in sync with
>> libcurl's. I don't know if that's the stumbling block, but it wouldn't be
>> hard to add the libcurl features from 7.19.1 through .3:
>>
>> CURLAUTH_DIGEST_IE - a simple constant
>> CURLOPT_USERNAME, CURLOPT_PASSWORD - implemented in Sourceforge patch
>> #3029282
>> CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD - should be a trivial
>> modification to the above patch
>> CURLOPT_POSTREDIR - a simple integer option
>>
>> CURLOPT_CERTINFO, CURLINFO_CERTINFO - This would require a small amount
>> of work to translate the struct curl_certinfo to something Python-compatible
>> (a list of lists or a list of dicts?)
>>
>>
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