pimp needs to do download itself

[jackjansen]

BPO	719300
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[jackjansen]

Pimp currently uses the OSX programs curl and tar to download distributions and unpack them. There is absolutely no reason not to use the urllib and tarfile modules for this.

[jackjansen]

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There is actually a very good reason to use at least the tarfile module: if we
use that in stead of unix tar we can fiddle pathnames while we unpack.
Thereby we can do per-user installs of packages even if the tarfile was
created for a system-wide installation. (That is, once the details of where
per-user packages are going to be stored have been worked out).

[jackjansen]

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Unpack has been implemented, downloading isn't that important, leaving
that for later.

[jackjansen]

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urllib2-based downloading has been implemented in pimp.py rev. 1.31
and 1.27.4.2, thanks to code donated by Kevin Ollivier.