Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Podcast problem

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:02 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> The problem with this feed is that we can't parse the dates for the
> posts.  It uses Dublin Core stuff, which I know very little about.
> 
> I'd really like to drop the current podcast parser code and use
> something sensible like feedparser (http://feedparser.org/) instead.

That library looks fairly nice.

It would probably mean re-writing the podcast code as a Python plugin,
but that would let us fix some of the insanities of the existing code,
and turning it into a plugin would be good anyway.


I guess we'd need to actually do the work to allow plugins to have
on-disk db entries (but that needs doing anyway) or putting them in
their own podcast.xml db (with some upgrade magic).


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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