[mythtv] question on datadirect grabber development
Isaac Richards
ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Apr 13 22:17:55 EDT 2004
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 03:36 pm, David Shay wrote:
> Anyone have a problem with just using a localtime conversion?
> If it is a problem -- any suggestions on how to deal with this? I could
> use some of the existing settings to do the conversion, but DST is still a
> large problem.
Shouldn't Qt's date code should handle things properly? The offset setting is
really more for european users whose grabbers don't quite work as expected
(data returned is from a different timezone than the user).
> Also, my current code base includes support for the tv_grab_na_dd grabber
> as well as the internal grabber. Last time I submitted my tv_grab_na_dd
> patch, it didn't get applied since tv_grab_na_dd is still in CVS and not
> released. Isaac, should I split these patches out and include only the
> internal grabber first? I'm not really sure when xmltv is going to release
> -- they are struggline with the same localtime issues indicated above.
If the internal grabber works, why support tv_grab_na_dd at all?
> Right now, the way that the code is written the internal grabber always
> pulls all 13 days of available data and mass-processes it in one shot. The
> tv_grab_na_dd grabber supports the old mechanism of pulling the data one
> day at a time and only pulling data for days which don't yet have any data.
> I wasn't immediately planning on supporting that for the internal grabber,
> since the data download time was minimal and I personally like to have a
> complete update to catch all schedule changes. Will that be acceptable for
> a first release?
I'd rather have it not pull data it doesn't need to pull, as the current
system does. I can't imagine it being difficult to do that, since the
wrapper code should be identical, only the parsing code different.
Isaac
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