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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 424773" data-attributes="member: 52082"><p>Nicezia, I don't neccesarily disagree with anything you just said. I am just pointing out why I am personally not interested in working on a community project that uses the XBMC scraper as a base. I think there are several problems with it (which I have pointed out above) that make it more difficult to expand, and more difficult to script. And by more difficult to script I mean more difficult for <em>anyone</em> to script. This include people new to the scraper engine. I am not suggesting that information gathering should be "confined to the elite". I think a scripting engine should be as simple to use as possible. Which is sort of my point, the XBMC scraper engine is not as simple to use as possible. </p><p></p><p>If a community project is created to design a common scrapper engine, I am all for that. But I do not think the XBMC scraper engine is the best foundation. Please don't take this personally, and please do not take this as a criticism of XBMC in general. I am honestly trying to be objective here. If it makes you feel any better, I think the scraper engine in MediaPortal 1 sucks too. It basically is just C# code loaded at runtime. This has a lot of issues as well and that is why on the Moving Pictures project we chose not to reuse <em>it</em> in the same way we chose to not reuse the XBMC scraper engine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fforde, post: 424773, member: 52082"] Nicezia, I don't neccesarily disagree with anything you just said. I am just pointing out why I am personally not interested in working on a community project that uses the XBMC scraper as a base. I think there are several problems with it (which I have pointed out above) that make it more difficult to expand, and more difficult to script. And by more difficult to script I mean more difficult for [i]anyone[/i] to script. This include people new to the scraper engine. I am not suggesting that information gathering should be "confined to the elite". I think a scripting engine should be as simple to use as possible. Which is sort of my point, the XBMC scraper engine is not as simple to use as possible. If a community project is created to design a common scrapper engine, I am all for that. But I do not think the XBMC scraper engine is the best foundation. Please don't take this personally, and please do not take this as a criticism of XBMC in general. I am honestly trying to be objective here. If it makes you feel any better, I think the scraper engine in MediaPortal 1 sucks too. It basically is just C# code loaded at runtime. This has a lot of issues as well and that is why on the Moving Pictures project we chose not to reuse [i]it[/i] in the same way we chose to not reuse the XBMC scraper engine. [/QUOTE]
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