Re: [Pan-devel] Generating NZB files

[Charles Kerr]

Darren Albers wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:22:36 +0100, Konrad Karl wrote:
> > Even better: create an option to make an nzb out of selected
> > articles, ignoring the cached status.
>
> This actually wouldn't be that hard to put together since Pan has all the
> basics available to do this.  I /think/ what you would want to do is
> something very similar to do_download_selected_Article () and instead
> of adding it to the queue call a function similar to nzb_to_xml to write
> out the tasks. There are some additions you would need to make such as
> adding a dialog box to get the path for saving the file etc....
>
> I haven't looked deeply into this part of pan to know for sure but I think
> that should be all you want to do, Charles can step in and smack me if I
> missed something  ;-)

Duncan, you've got it just right. :)  That's how I'd go about it.

Generating nzb files for other programs raises a bigger question
for me though.  If another program is more useful at handling nzb,
then Pan generating nzb only treats a symptom, not the problem.
The real solution is to make Pan handle nzb better than anyone else.

Konrad, what does nzbperl.pl do better than Pan?
Duncan, what did you have in mind?

cheers,
Charles