http://localhost/ticket/101 <ol><li>Given a url download from that url to disk </li><li>Given a package use download url to download to disk </li></ol><p> Once on disk should uncompress (if necessary). </p> <h2 id="Details">Details</h2> <ul><li>Should download either to tmp directory (defaulted in config) or a specified path on disk </li><li>In download would like to support as many types of target urls as possible: <ol><li>Single files (usually compressed filesets but could be individual files) </li><li>Index pages listing files to download </li><li>Revision control repositories </li><li>... </li></ol></li></ul><blockquote> <p> This will obviously be a significant amount of work. Suggest: </p> </blockquote> <ol><li>Start off just supporting the first option. </li><li>Have something like a plugin system to handle new target types </li><li>Reuse existing work (e.g. easy_install and pip handle standard vcs such as svn, hg, git etc) </li></ol><p> Cost: 1d </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/101 Trac 0.12.3 rgrp Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:36:47 GMT http://localhost/ticket/101#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/101#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Marking as fixed as Item 1 and item 2 have now been done (at least partially), using urlgrabber. However no "distribution" support (we just assume all downloads are "payloads" and get metadata from ckan). See cset:ae89cbc898c7/datapkg cset:8448f862c588/datapkg cset:df22cd0f92a1/datapkg etc. </p> Ticket