Re: python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ...

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:48:02 +0000, lbrt chx _ gemale wrote:
>
>   
>> python-based youtube-dl
>> ~
>>  http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
>> ~
>>  is sorely missing a flag in order to indicate the maximum file length
>>  of the data feed it would download (well, unless, for some reason, it
>>  is considered a "feature").
>>     
>
> If you are making a feature request, you should make it directly to the 
> project developer, and not here.
>
> Since you consider that feature "shouldn't be hard at all" (your words), 
> perhaps you should consider providing a patch? Don't forget the 
> documentation and tests for it.
>
> Or did you mean "it shouldn't be hard for me, if somebody else does the 
> work"?
>
>
>   
>> ~
>>  I wonder what developers were thinking about when they came up this
>>  nice piece of code. If you actually look in the code
>>     
> [...]
>
> Lbrtchx, it's possible that English is not your natural language. Please 
> be aware that, in English, "what they were thinking..." is often used 
> sarcastically, as in "they weren't actually thinking". Particularly 
> following your use of scare quotes around "feature".
>
> (Even more so for the similar form, "what were they thinking?".)
>
> It's probably not going to help you get a feature added to the project if 
> you imply (even by accident) that lack of that feature is an indication 
> that the developer wasn't thinking.
>
>
>   
Maybe Lbrtchx is one of the Sheldon Cooper's nicknames :o)

JM

PS : I have the feeling that my nerdy reference will fall flat...

Thread

python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ... lbrt chx _ gemale - 2011-11-04 11:48 +0000
  Re: python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-11-04 12:32 +0000
    Re: python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ... Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-11-04 14:31 +0100
    RE: python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ... "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2011-11-07 16:34 -0500
  Re: python-based downloader (youtube-dl) missing critical feature ... Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2011-11-04 13:45 +0100

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