Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:13:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r460892 - head/ftp/py-pycurl Message-ID: <201802041013.w14AD5BV023861@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: sunpoet Date: Sun Feb 4 10:13:05 2018 New Revision: 460892 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/460892 Log: Update pkg-descr - Add PyPI as primary WWW Modified: head/ftp/py-pycurl/pkg-descr Modified: head/ftp/py-pycurl/pkg-descr ============================================================================== --- head/ftp/py-pycurl/pkg-descr Sun Feb 4 10:13:00 2018 (r460891) +++ head/ftp/py-pycurl/pkg-descr Sun Feb 4 10:13:05 2018 (r460892) @@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ -Python module interface to the cURL library which is -a tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting -many protocols. +PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl, the multiprotocol file transfer +library. Similarly to the urllib Python module, PycURL can be used to fetch +objects identified by a URL from a Python program. Beyond simple fetches however +PycURL exposes most of the functionality of libcurl, including: +- Speed - libcurl is very fast and PycURL, being a thin wrapper above libcurl, + is very fast as well. PycURL was benchmarked to be several times faster than + requests. +- Features including multiple protocol support, SSL, authentication and proxy + options. PycURL supports most of libcurl's callbacks. +- Multi and share interfaces. +- Sockets used for network operations, permitting integration of PycURL into the + applications' I/O loop (e.g., using Tornado). + +WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycurl WWW: http://pycurl.io/
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