XMLTV 0.5.27

Gather television listings, process them and organize your viewing.
XMLTV is a file format for storing TV listings, defined in xmltv.dtd.
Then there are several tools to produce and process these listings.

Please see doc/QuickStart for documentation on what each program does,
and xmltv.dtd for documentation on the file format.

* Changes in this release

This release 0.5.27 fixes some problems with building and installing
0.5.26.  The changes in the previous release 0.5.26 are:

0.5.26 was mostly small bugfixes and cleanups.  There is one big
bug that was fixed, where many grabbers would fail close to a year
changeover, but that won't matter again for another 12 months.

Two dependency version increments: XML::Writer version 0.4.1 is now
required, but this is not yet the official CPAN version, see below.
Lingua::Preferred version 0.2.4 is recommended.

tv_grab_uk now has a channel package of Irish channels (feedback
please).  Missing programmes in tv_grab_fi output fixed.  The warning
from tv_grab_na about checking for a newer version is fixed (as you
would expect ;-}).  tv_grab_es includes channel numbers as channel
display-names in the output, but I'm not sure how correct they are
(feedback please).  tv_grab_nl can now be configured for many more
channels.  Fixed --days and --offset in tv_grab_dk and tv_grab_it.

Many small fixes to the libraries and filter programs (tv_sort,
tv_remove_some_overlapping).  Fixed duplicate titles bug in tv_imdb.

tv_grab_de is not working in this release because the upstream data
files are not available.

* Installation

% perl Makefile.PL
% make
% make test
% make install

To install in a custom directory, replace the first line with
something like

% perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/wherever/

The system requirements are perl 5.6 or later, and a few Perl modules.
You will be asked about some optional components; if you choose not to
install them then there are fewer dependencies.  The full list of
needed modules is:

XML::Parser 2.34
XML::Twig 3.09
XML::Writer 0.4.1 - nonstandard release, see below
Date::Manip 5.42a 
LWP 5.65
Memoize (included with perl 5.8 and later)

HTML::Parser 3.34       (if you want to run tv_grab_na)
HTML::TreeBuilder       (for many of the grabbers)
Tk::TableMatrix         (if you want to run tv_check)
XML::Simple             (if you want to run tv_check)
CGI                     (if you want to use tv_pick_cgi)

Where a version number is given any later version also ought to work.

XML::Writer 0.4.1 is an unofficial bugfix release which you can get as
<http://cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/E/ED/EDAVIS/XML-Writer-0.4.1.tar.gz>.
It might become the official latest version at some point.

The following modules are recommended, but the software still works
without them:

Term::ProgressBar                (displays pretty progress meters)
PerlIO::gzip (for perl 5.8+)     (makes tv_imdb a bit faster)
Compress::Zlib                   (makes tv_grab_de a bit faster)
Lingua::Preferred 0.2.4          (helps with multilingual listings)
Unicode::String                  (non-ASCII chars in LaTeX output)
Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate    (not really needed, to be honest)

And the Log::TraceMessages module is useful for debugging, but not
needed for normal use.

All of these can be installed with tarballs downloaded from CPAN or
(hopefully) using the CPAN shell program: 'perl -MCPAN -e shell', then
'install XML::Twig' and so on.  But you may find it easier to search
for packaged versions from your OS vendor or others - places which
distribute a packaged version of xmltv will often provide the modules
it needs too.

* Author and copying

This is free software distributed under the GPL, see COPYING.  But if
you would like to use the code under some other conditions, please do
ask.  There are many who have contributed code, they are credited in
individual source files.

There is a web page at
<http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/> and a Sourceforge
project 'XMLTV'.  Please join the xmltv-announce mailing list at
Sourceforge for notification of new versions.

-- Ed Avis, ed@membled.com, 2004-01-04
$Id: README,v 1.88 2004/01/04 13:17:39 epaepa Exp $
