[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4903: XMLTV capability problems

[Stuart Morgan]

On Monday 10 March 2008 03:54:57 MythTV wrote:
>  2) Capabilities like "cache" should maybe also be reported? (to let the
>  user choose between slow and fast grabbers where there are several for
>  their area)

The cache capability is really only useful if the grabber is going to be 
called more than once per day. It means we can specify a cachefile where the 
results of grabbing will be stored and used for future executions of the 
script. It's a debugging facility and not one which the end user will benefit 
from.

Those grabbers which use http caching, using last modified dates and 
HTTP::Cache::Transparent do it automatically, but this is very different from 
the cache capability. There is currently no way to tell which grabber uses 
http caching.
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Stuart Morgan