On Dec 26, 2020, at 16:49, Lorne Tyndale <ltynd...@tyndaleweb.com> wrote:
> The one thing I would add to the discussion is that rdsetcut should also > exist as a macro command so you can set the cut value through a macro. > One of things that I find truly powerful with Rivendell is the extensive > macro language, the ability to do pretty much everything via macros. ++ > One question though - why would it be necessary to bypass dayparting in > this mode? In a word: orthogonality. What makes this approach so elegant is that it allows cut-selection logic to be completely delegated to an external system; Rivendell becomes merely the executive agent. Keeping the day-parting around in that scenario significantly mucks up the logic; not only in the code, but more importantly in the heads of the people who have to deal with it, both the implementors and the end users. If you *want* day-parting in that mode, you are perfectly free to implement it in your external system, free of any vestigial policy constraints from Rivendell. > If a cut doesn't exist, could there be a "default cut" field / option in > the cart settings to deal with this? We already have something like this: the ‘Evergreen’ cut. So the logic when a non-existent cut is specified would become: 1) If an Evergreen cut exists, play that. 2) Otherwise, the cart become unplayable (shows RED in the log, and gets skipped over when attempted to be played). In fact, I can see the ability to make the cart unplayable could actually be a useful feature in many scenarios. So, in rdsetcut(1), specifying '--cut-number=0' would do just that: make the cart unplayable TFN. (Although, we may want to present this state in logs differently; RED strongly implies “error, problem”, whereas this would be an intentional condition). Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, | | it's generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes. | | | | -- Eric Raymond | | "The Art of UNIX Programming" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
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