From: Jon Crookston
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 1:34 AM
As for the cygwin issue, mentioned by a few other posters: I've always run
gip under cygwin. I think when I first began to use it there was no
windows version available. (According to >my download_history, using
Richard's method to extract the date from the epoch-timestamp, this was
probably in early 2010.) While I've long aspired to run 'real' linux,
or at least >dual boot, I've never managed to prioritise the time to make
it happen, and cygwin is pretty good for what I need. I've never
considered cygwin to be 'asking for trouble', but I >recognise that it may
have limitations.
The thing which I still don't really understand is that nothing changed on
my system, and gip became broken. Does this mean that there was a switch
from http to https at the BBC's >end? If so, I'm surprised that this
wasn't more widely known about. Normally, by the time I notice that gip
has stopped working I find a lot of traffic on this list from people with
the >same problem. I remain very grateful to the developer for providing
fixes so quickly in such circumstances.
The release notes
https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/release300to309#release305
show the date for v3.05 as 2017-10-12. The v3.05 release notes say,
Changes in 3.05
Web PVR: Updated to support HTTPS URLs for Quick URL recording. The BBC has
begun redirecting iPlayer episode pages to secure equivalents, and Web PVR
limitations have required changing "https:" to "http:" for pages used in the
Quick URL box. This did not affect the CLI or recording from search results
in Web PVR.
That may have some connection with the problem you had.
I have never used Cygwin so I am not denigrating it. I have been using
get_iplayer since it started (2008?) and I have so far only used the Windows
version. For Windows there has always been the Windows installer which
packages everything needed to run it. Packages have also been produced for
Ubuntu and Raspbian and maybe other distributions. Using the packages saves
effort. In addition there are lots of users using the same configuration so
that any problems get reported and fixed quickly. If you use a
configuration noone else is using you are on your own (relatively).
On top of that any emulator adds its own limitations to the limitations of
the underlying operating system. I get the impression from the web pages
about Cygwin that there are a lot of choices to be made. There must be
scope for problems to be introduced by leaving something out of Cygwin.
As for reporting errors, I suspect DinkyPumpkin does read this listserver,
but the only official route for reporting errors is the forum. dinky will
only reply in the forum.
https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/
Anyway I'm glad you got it fixed.
Best wishes
Richard
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