Thanks for the suggestions. I have decided to go with Info. At this point support legacy regex appears pretty straight forward. But I agree. It will be removed. I run my code on an old mac mini, late 2009 which has perl 5.14
Thanks again for the feedback. Adam On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 04:09, John M. Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com> wrote: > I would tend toward Info myself. The existence of Video::Info is > irrelevant except for highlighting that Info is a valid choice. But I also > admit that's just me, and I tend to view Parse in a language context. > > Don't bother trying to support Perl versions less that 5.10. Last I > checked the (admittedly unscientific) surveys, 5.10 was the lowest version > that had a sizeable usage percentage, and on a personal level, I just > don't want to support Perls with flawed security. > > My current modules either have a minimum required versions of 5.10.1, or > 5.16.1, depending on whether I might have to deal with Unicode. I've never > had a complaint (I don't write pragmas or system-oriented code, so it's > never been anything I've need to worry about). > > -john > > On Thu, March 14, 2019 10:56 pm, Adam Spann wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am considering a module to supplement Video::Filename written by > > Behan Webster. I have tried reaching out to him in the past couple of > > weeks. Submitting a patch to provide support for show > > name.yyyy.mm.dd.ext > > > > > > In the mean time I have been considering if a specific module for TV > > Shows only might also be worth while, of course with additional > > features and support. > > > > See attached podtotext file. > > > > I have a few questions. > > > > 1) > > Would it be better to go with Parse, Meta, or Info since we are > > attempting to get meta data from from the file naming. There is > > already a Video::Info which does the deep dive into the file contents > > from what I have read. I have not used the module itself. > > > > 2) > > Should I keep support for perl below version 5.10 as versions below > > this do not support named groups in regex. I have seen on PerlMonks > > that there are still questions being asked by people using perl > > versions less than 5.10 > > > > > > Looking forward to hearing back. > > > > Best, > > Adam Spann > > > > >
