The Mighty Buzzard Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Yeah I know it'd add around a hundred kB before compression. Yeah I know it'd probably be massive overkill in this case. It'd still make for some seriously easy feed filtering though and it's already extremely well documented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 What, regular expressions? ludde already said no. He does not want regexp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted March 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 S'all good, I can write an external script to generate my own pre-filtered rss feed and just drop a * in µTorrent easily enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted March 1, 2006 Report Share Posted March 1, 2006 Regular Expressions are hard to implement in a minimal fashion (or at all), I can understand why ludde refuses to do so. Just not worth the effort, Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phro Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Since this has been brought up again I'm curious as to why one of the many openly available rexex libraries could not be used? Writing a regular expression parser from scratch seems like a massive wheel reinvention to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 ludde uses only custom libraries. Using outside libraries will definitely make the application bigger, and probably less optimized than it could be, going against the original goal of µTorrent in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 It's mainly because it's very complex to implement and because it's hard to use. ludde just thinks it's too complicated overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Probably is, Firon. It's almost a given that it's easier to write a tiny daemon in perl to pull feeds, filter them, join them, then serve them back up than it is to get regexs working bug-free in a massively used C/C++ app. Since I already did the above the day you replied, I'm not much worried about it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoicJester Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 hey buzzard, where can i read some tutorials and stuff on how to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted March 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 That depends... Are you a code monkey to start with? If you are I can just link you my script and you can very easily make any necessary config changes, if not I'd suggest picking up O'Reilly's Learning Perl or Michael Saltzman's Modern Perl Programming. It's a fairly simple script but all the punctuation could hurt your eyes if you're a complete noob to coding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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