The HTTP library (requests) by default will pull a gzipped version of the resolvers list from Github (Content-Length returned for current version is 59029 compared to 239359 with gzip disabled). Compressing with `gzip -9` gives me a file size of 49648 so I don't think the added complexity of having to consciously deal with the compression in the application outweighs the small gain over the standard HTTP compression Github and Requests provide by default.
I had looked at pre-downloading the resolvers file in the setup script, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a decent, reliable way to do it. If people download the source and run `setup.py install` it's easy but I'd imagine most people will just install with `pip` or `easy_install` which makes things a bit more complicated since nether of them seem to run post install actions.
Both good suggestions though, I'll keep them on my todo list.
The HTTP library (requests) by default will pull a gzipped version of the resolvers list from Github (Content-Length returned for current version is 59029 compared to 239359 with gzip disabled). Compressing with `gzip -9` gives me a file size of 49648 so I don't think the added complexity of having to consciously deal with the compression in the application outweighs the small gain over the standard HTTP compression Github and Requests provide by default.
I had looked at pre-downloading the resolvers file in the setup script, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a decent, reliable way to do it. If people download the source and run `setup.py install` it's easy but I'd imagine most people will just install with `pip` or `easy_install` which makes things a bit more complicated since nether of them seem to run post install actions.
Both good suggestions though, I'll keep them on my todo list.