Hi Guillaume,

Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As said in the release announcement mail of the 0.3 version of my
> plugin, I'm working on integrating all the video content available on
> the new RTBF website.
> Things are going pretty well so far and I'm not far to have a releasable
> plugin.

Sounds cool! Let's see if you manage to get me addicted to Belgian TV
news/radio stations ;)

> Few questions though:
> 
> - As I reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+bug/316082 Elisa's
> text wrapping is really annoying. Any advice about how to solve this
> problem would be welcome.

Answered in said bug report.

> - I use pyamf to query the remote server. IIRC, the policy about
> external dep is to ship them with the plugin bundle. Is that still true?
> If it is, do you have any doc explaining how to do it?

Still true. There is no documentation on how to do this but for small
dependencies it should be fairly easy. You can have a look at how it's
done in the weather plugin with pymetar
(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~osomon/elisa-plugin-weather/weather/revision/18)

> - As my plugin uses AMF (Action script RPC protocol) to communicate with
> the server, I don't have "real" URI to pass to the resource_provider. I
> solved that by using "fake" uris as:
> http://mediaserver.rtbf.be/AllGroupChannels or
> http://mediaserver.rtbf.be/getProgramsByChannel/$ID
> 
> Is that ok or is it a better way?

Looks good to me, IIRC we already do this kind of things in other
resource providers.

> Thanks for your help,
> 
> 
> 
>       G.

Thanks for your plugin :)

Olivier

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