On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 22:56 +0100, Jonathan Tweed wrote: > On 27 May 2010, at 20:42, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Personally, all my use of iPlayer content is to fetch something I'm > > already aware of; I'm not just browsing randomly. And for that, I find > > that a command line tool gives a _much_ better experience than any > > point-and-drool GUI could ever provide. > > You're missing two very important words there: for you.
Surely those two words would be redundant, given that I already went back to that sentence to insert the words 'I find that' before sending it? That was certainly my intention. > > But there _are_ GUI tools which make use of get_iplayer, such as the > > get_iplayer.cgi script which runs a local web server and points your > > browser at it. They haven't received a lot of love because most people > > with sufficient clue to work on them don't really _care_ about such > > things. > > I think Kieran's point is that they should. That's what will drive > widespread adoption. That presumes that "they" _want_ widespread adoption, of course. I can't speak for "them" but personally, I don't really care very much about how widely get_iplayer (or any other Free Software I work on) is adopted. It's fun when people out there are using your code, but that kind of lost its novelty after the first few million units shipped. I started working on get_iplayer because I find it useful and I know that other people find it useful too. Without it, the iPlayer is fairly useless to me. My broadband at home is far too slow to watch things in real time with any reasonable quality, BT want £128,000 to install a second line, so my only real option is to download things and then watch them. I'm completely uninterested in the GUI side. I'd be the wrong person to do any GUI support because I'd never want to _use_ anything like that. If you or Kieran are actually _interested_ in the GUIs... have you _looked_ at get_iplayer.cgi or at the iPlayer support in XBMC? -- dwmw2 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
