> Example: I'm reading the downloaded news and I click on a link that was
> not downloaded. I select this link (via checkbox) I name the link i.e.
> "Link that was not downloaded the last time" and I select the depth of
> gathering the information. When I come to another non-downloaded link, I
> repeat the process.
In order to do this, we need to actually store the string of
characters which make up the "out of bounds" URLs which were not fetched.
For a very large fetch, or a site which contained a lot of links, this could
be a considerable size.
Then there's the --no-urlinfo complex. If it's used, you lose the
ability to retrieve those "out of bounds" urls.
> All that while I'm using my Palm. And when I HotSync the pda, the
> Plucker downloads the newly made HTML page (i.e. "Extra pages that have
> to be downloaded") and uses it in its next session. Would that be
> possible? Is there any way you could implement this, while not needing
> to rewrite the whole program all over again? :)
And this brings up another issue, which is that we don't currently
touch (update) the databases on the Palm with the parser on the desktop. In
order to do this, we would now require that the Palm be in the cradle at
*GATHER* time, or we'd have to cache off the Plucker databases on the
desktop. Both are not ideal, and would require a lot more space on the Palm,
assuming we use the Palm to add records.
Alternately, we pull the database from the Palm, run a gather on the
desktop, comparing against what is in the database we just pulled from the
Palm, and then integrate those "missing" records. However, would you just
want to append those records? Or remove the ones already read, and then
replace them with the "out of bounds" records you checked?
In order to do this, you need parser and viewer changes which
slightly change the architecture a bit, by adding a 360-degree sync
capability. The original Plucker implementation did this, with a local cache
directory and then actually created the PDB on the Palm, using the desktop
conduit, vs. the Python parser today which creates the PDB on the desktop,
which you then sync to your Palm with your desktop tools.
/d
