[Imdbpy-devel] 'local' is gone

[Davide Alberani]

Hi all,
as of today, the 'local' data access system is no more in the SVN,
and trying to use it will raise an exception (no real reason to
issue a warning, since the whole code vanished from this universe :-)

I hope to have removed any reference to it, even in the documentation,
but something can be still here and there.  I hope to have fixed the
installer properly, also. :-)

The imdb.parser.common package was also removed, and its code
moved to imdb.parser.sql (included a stripped-down version of cutils.c)
and in the imdbpy2sql.py script.

'local' was removed for a series of good reasons:
- the moviedb program was no more distributed by IMDb.
- the new format for movie titles ("The Title" instead of "Title, The")
  created way too many problems almost impossible to fix, since a lot
  of damage was done by the - never updated - moviedb program.
- it was slower and less complete than 'sql'.
- there were very few users of it.

Anyone who was still using it, should move to 'sql'.

As a bonus, the code/text is now 8375 lines shorter. :-)


Bye,
-- 
Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47]
http://erlug.linux.it/~da/

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