Re: [Pan-users] New Feature - Uploading binaries

[Heinrich Müller]

Hi Petr. 
I saw you are following my progress on github.
I am currently debugging this feature, and am pondering
how to implement a few things.
Currently, my add-on does the following:
- Post binaries with multiple connections on ONE server
- Save upload queues to NZB files
- Some options are configurable via the options menu:
  * Subject line
  * Upload queue autosave
- The user can choose which parts of each file to upload
- The user can clear the list / remove files from the list

Things I want to implement:
- Move down/up of files in queue
- Perhaps more options. 

Some implementation notes:
The upload queue is stored in a cache I adapted from the article-cache 
in pan. It is emptied on startup and files that are not needed anymore are
discarded.
I haven't fully tested it for leaks yet, but pan as is does leak a lot as I see 
it (or it is gtk-stuff...). 
The code itself uses some "ugly" stuff I didn't have the time to beautify yet...
The code of uuencode.c has been taken from the latest pre-version of uudeview 
and has been changed slightly.
I use a mersenne-twister-rng for my message-ids. Perhaps I will cancel this as 
I don't really know how reliable this will be in a real environment. But I 
haven't found a way yet to find posted articles without
downloading the headers and comparing by message-id. And if I want to keep the 
option to create NZBs from uploads automagically, I'll have
to stick to sending the message-ids to the server myself, as not all servers 
return the mid on a succesfull upload.

I estimate I have this fully working in two/three weeks time, but
don't shoot me if i don't :D 
Anyways, the current version as is is functional, but perhaps still has
a few bugs. (So I naturally don't recommend it yet.)


Cheers,
Heinrich

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:59:54 +0200
> Von: Petr Kovar <address@hidden>
> An: pan-users <address@hidden>
> Betreff: Re: [Pan-users] New Feature - Uploading binaries

> Hi!
> 
> Heinrich Mueller, Tue, 31 May 2011 15:08:25 +0200:
> 
> > Hey guys.
> > Just to let you know: I'm working on bringing file uploading support to
> > Pan. I merged my branch with lostcoder's testing branch and so far
> > everything is neat-o.
> > (See screenshot ....)
> > Just a few bugs to squish...
> 
> Sounds great! Thank you for your interest in Pan's development, Heinrich.
> I'm wondering what's the progress so far? It'd be nice to have this work
> released soon, probably in 0.136/1.0.80... ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Petr Kovar
> 
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