[gpodder-devel] The download folder and file names (again ;)
- From: paul at thegithouse.com (Paul Rudkin)
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:16:21 +0100
Hi Thomas
I would welcome this change, though I also share your concerns. However
I think we should give it a try and work to find a solution to any
issues that may arise.
Paul
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 18:28 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The stabilization phase for 0.11.2 is starting this weekend, and I'll be
> sending out a seperate mail for this one. There's still some things to
> do to get ready for 0.11.2.
>
> After having talked with Nick on #gpodder on FreeNode IRC, I thought
> about the md5-summed download folder and file names (once again). I
> think many users would be happy to get rid of these names and have
> better user-readable names. I don't know how many feeds this will break,
> or if it would work out good most of the time.
>
> I'm really thinking about changing the default behaviour (or adding some
> hidden option) to have human-readable file names for episodes. I think
> somebody on this list already does this in the working copy, maybe you
> can send me a patch?
>
> What I thought about is letting the episode filenames be the basenames
> of the files on the server. That would make it easy for us to get the
> filename based on the URL (when no metadata is known) and also make it
> better readable.
>
> Of course, this could potentially break things a bit, but we're never
> bug-free and (according to Nick, again) many other programs that
> download podcasts don't break with this behaviour, so it would be
> possible to try.
>
> You can find a description of the problems in the gPodder FAQ
> (http://wiki.gpodder.org/faq) in the question "What about these odd
> directory and file names that look like MD5 sums?". The plus side of
> this change would be human-readable file names.
>
>
> Now, it's your turn - motivate me or stop me from introducing this
> change into the codebase ;) No, really - what do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
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