[libimdb-commit] CVS: web generate.pl,1.1,1.2

[Jerry V. <jve...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/libimdb/web
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv28996

Modified Files:
	generate.pl 
Log Message:
added about and news for beta release coming

Index: generate.pl
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RCS file: /cvsroot/libimdb/web/generate.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -C2 -d -r1.1 -r1.2
*** generate.pl	16 Jun 2003 03:43:41 -0000	1.1
--- generate.pl	16 Aug 2003 21:12:02 -0000	1.2
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*** 84,88 ****
    <dd>Wim Mortier's <a href="http://home.planetinternet.be/%7Eic521102/">SyncIMDB</a></dd>
    <dd>Thorsten M. Wahl's <a href="http://www.amdbfront.com/">AMDbFront and JMDb</a></dd>
-  </dt>
   </dl>
  !;
--- 84,87 ----
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*** 109,113 ****
   <a name="about"></a>
   <h2>About LibIMDB</h2>
!  <p>Not sure what we want here yet.</p>
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--- 108,128 ----
   <a name="about"></a>
   <h2>About LibIMDB</h2>
!  <p>The LibIMDB Project is about creating useful, and hopefully simple
!     interfaces to the contents of imdb plain-text files.</p>
! 
!  <p>History: The need for this project has really grown out of the tv_imdb filter written for 
!     <a href="http:://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv">xmltv</a>. This perl script preprocessors
!     a subset of the imdb list files, creates a couple of simple flat file indexes, which are
!     then used to augment tv listing data with information from imdb. As more users started
!     using tv_imdb, the more apparent it was that its scalability in its current design was limited.
!     We quickly found that there were a lot of projects that used imdb data, but almost all
!     scraped the data by querying and parsing html from the imdb web site. This was not an option
!     for a program like tv_imdb which likes doing its own fuzzy title searches and whose users
!     would easily kill the imdb site with so many queries. There are a handful of projects
!     that were closer to what we needed, but none shared source nor provide the level of
!     interfacing we required. So LibIMDB was started, spun as a separate project from tv_imdb
!     to allow others to benefit from our effort.</p>
!  <br>
!  <p>
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--- 131,143 ----
   <h2>News</h2>
   <p>Beta release is coming...</p>
+  <dl>
+  <dt>The first beta release (sometime in the fall) will include:</dt>
+     <dd>1. linux only (others planed)</dd>
+     <dd>2. dynamic and static libraries</dd>
+     <dd>3. a minimal set of demonstration programs (written in C)</dd>
+     <dd>4. beta release of a java interface (using jni via swig)</dd>
+     <dd>5. support for parsing the actors, actresses and directors list files.</dd>
+     <dd>6. basic parsing error reporting and recovery</dd>
+  </dl>
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*** 129,133 ****
   <h2>Support</h2>
   <p>The best way to get support is to subscribe and submit a question to one of the mailing lists.</p>
!  <p>Try looking <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=@@SOURCEFORGE_GROUP_ID@@">here</a>.</p
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--- 153,157 ----
   <h2>Support</h2>
   <p>The best way to get support is to subscribe and submit a question to one of the mailing lists.</p>
!  <p>Try looking <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=@@SOURCEFORGE_GROUP_ID@@">here</a>.</p>
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*** 135,140 ****
   <a name="apidocs"></a>
   <h2>Api Documentation</h2>
!  <p>There will probably be a couple of api layers to use.</p>
!  <p>coming soon...</p
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--- 159,164 ----
   <a name="apidocs"></a>
   <h2>Api Documentation</h2>
!  <p>There will probably be a couple of apis to choose from. Initial plans are for a C level,
! a JNI (java) interface and possibly (given time) a perl package.</p>
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