Re: [Xmltv-devel] New grabber (tv_grab_fi_sv)

[Robert E. <rm...@gm...>]

On 10/28/2010 5:14 PM, Karl Dietz wrote:
> Your grabber requires at least:
> perl        5.10 (for the ~~ operator and Date::Manip 6)
> Date::Manip 6
>
> While Debian lenny comes with perl 5.10 it does not come with
> Date::Manip 6. (FreeBSD doesn't either)
>
>
> @core devs, the readme of Date::Manip talks about extremely limited
> time zone support in version 5, some supported systems don't provide
> version 6 and some grabbers already use DateTime. What should we suggest
> to use for new grabbers?

I think it is  too early to require 5.10 and Date::Manip 6 for all of XMLTV.

Many of our users use older systems that may not be upgraded except for 
XMLTV. (to fix a scraper problem).  Personally, I'm still on Perl 5.8,7 
because it works fine for me. (and the exe)

Requiring perl 5.10 and Date::Manip 6 is a significant enough change I 
can see people needing to upgrade their OS.  I don't think we should be 
the trigger for that.

That said, there's no reason XMLTV's Makefile.PL can just not install 
the _fi_sv grabber, which is what it will do if dependencies are noted 
in Makefile.PL.

I can see this causing major grief for the packagers.... if they want to 
include _fi_sv in their package they need to Perl 5.10/Date::Manip 
dependencies.  How do the packagers deal with _il and it_dvb?  Packagers 
could be put in the position of a package for newer distros and older 
ones (without _fi_sv)

Robert