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[Ahmed Elmahdawy <aa_mahdawy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still have no idea how to update a PPA, Savvas was doing that. When I 
tried to read a tutorial, all what I said was "Oh well, that stuff is 
just too hard for me." I can try again though :P

On 12/25/2009 09:50 PM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> Plugins and scripting are definitely surl's job. Do you have any idea
> how annoying it is to implement that stuff in C? :-)
>
> libsurl is lacking the ability to handle titles and keywords and
> stuff.  By which I mean, the template API can handle them, but none of
> the templates I've written actually do.  That's a big thing I need to
> work on for 0.6. The other big thing is documentation (ick).
>
> At one point I thought I saw the beginnings of a debian package for
> surl, but as nearly as I can tell, nothing is happening with that.
> What's going on?
>
>
> On 12/25/09, Ahmed Elmahdawy<aa_mahdawy@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > No, these functions are great and should make CDLL happy.
> > CDLL doesn't understand C types. For example, a function that returns
> > SURL will just return an integer in Python. When you pass that to other
> > functions, it throws an exception because "it expected SURL but got int."
> >
> > By the way, I think libsurl have almost reached surl apart from several
> > other services. Plugins (and maybe scripting?) are surl's job, not
> > libsurl's.
> >
> > On 12/25/2009 09:29 PM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > > I don't know how python's C-interface works yet, but: for version 0.6,
> > > the libsurl API is going to include functions along the lines of
> > > (details to be worked out later)
> > >
> > > char *surl_qshort(char *url) // picks a few services, and picks the
> > > shortest resulting URL
> > > char *surl_easy_shorten(char *service, char *url); // for normal people
> > > char *surl_do_shorten(char *service,char *url,char *key,char
> > > *whatever_else) // as specified above.
> > >
> > > Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > > I plan to have surl using the libsurl API around version 0.8 (of both
> > > - version numbers roughly correspond as of libsurl-0.5).
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/25/09, Ahmed Elmahdawy<aa_mahdawy@xxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> > > > Looking at libsurl's source code, I've found that it seems almost
> > > > impossible for Python's -- or in this case, surl -- CDLL to call it.
> > > > What can be done in the future is to implement a simple function that
> > > > takes all arguments (url, api key, etc and null for none) and returns
> > > > the shortened API.
> > > > Here's an example:
> > > >
> > > > char *surl_pyget(char *url, char *service, char *key, /more args/)
> > > > {
> > > > /// do surl_getopt()'s, null or empty string=ignore/
> > > >        char *shortUrl = /shortened url/;
> > > >        // /cleanup/
> > > >        return shortUrl;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ahmed Elmahdawy