[imp] Re: Patch for mbox downloads in IMP 3.2.5

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Ross Becker <ross at rbecker.org>:

>    I took a look at things, and I'd have to some major hacking to do
> this. Essentially I'd need to add a method to the compression classes
> which would accept a filehandle instead of a string, then (ideally),
> create a new tmpfile, compress into the new file, and eventually return
> the new tmpfile() filehandle.
>
> I think this is actually a good idea anyhow, as anything that's large
> enough to warrant being compressed is probably large enough to warrant
> not being kept in memory.
>
> I wouldn't mind if someone else were to take this on for the compression
> classes, but I may be able to get to it in a reasonable time frame.

Sounds worth the wait to me...

-chuck

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