Announcing Oidargul

[mrben]

Following the OSS principle of 'release early, release often' I am pleased to announce the very first version of Oidargul, a system to help you mirror Lugradio effectively.

Essentially I have built the backend (Python) library that does most of the hard work, and put in a simple text front end so that you can (kind of) see it in action. I will begin work on a cross platform GUI frontend with wxPython as soon as possible.

The code is available here or you can view the prettified HTML version of the code at http://www.jedimoose.org/mrben/oidargul ... l3.py.html

NOTE - for some reason I cannot download from audio.lugradio.org at the moment, thus it doesn't do a lot after it has downloaded the feed. But it does work

The plan is that it will create a nice system that will:

a) download the mirror feed and parse it for the URLs
b) download the files
c) upload them via ftp to your site
d) invoke the addmirror script to add you to the rotation
e) have a system to delete your mirror from the system

It should, in theory, be possible to use the module to create a daemon to do this automatically too.

At the moment it is not possible to use it to create a brand new mirror with all files, because the mirror feed does not go that far back.....


All comments and thoughts are welcome, abuse will probably be tolerated.

[No']

Oidargul ? What the hell does this name?... oh, wait!

/me thinks MORE AND MORE about becoming a mirror maintainer

[billybofh]

Yay!

Are you accepting patches?

[mrben]

Yay!

Are you accepting patches?

Heh - feel free.

I'm working on the GUI at the moment - should have something knocked up in the next 24-48 hours. From that point I will look seriously at patches and suggestions

[Aq]

Following the OSS principle of 'release early, release often' I am pleased to announce the very first version of Oidargul, a system to help you mirror Lugradio effectively.

Wow. Cool. You're a star. Can you let us know when you're happy with it and we'll link it from the site?

for some reason I cannot download from audio.lugradio.org at the moment

Yeah, yeah, it was broken, I've fixed it and made sure it won't happen again

At the moment it is not possible to use it to create a brand new mirror with all files, because the mirror feed does not go that far back.....

You mean the lugradiomirrors blog, rather than the official RSS feed? What would you need the official RSS feed to do to make this possible?

Aq.

[matt]

MrBen, this awesome. Nice one.

I may transfer the LR mirror feed to lugradio.org soon, depending on what Aq and Jono think, as it's their server

Anyway, what format, or whatever, should the mirror feed be in to help you?

[mrben]

You mean the lugradiomirrors blog, rather than the official RSS feed? What would you need the official RSS feed to do to make this possible?

Aq.

Yes - I was presuming that the idea would be for mirror maintainers to use it, thus it should use the mirror feed, as it tends to get updated first.

It wouldn't take much for it to use the official feed instead - just a minor change in the xml parsing to pick out the correct filenames. However, the official feed doesn't include the low files, so you would need to provide feeds for them too.

The GUI is coming along nicely - I hope to have reasonable functionality within the next 24 hours - but I need to fiddle about with threading and the like, so that the GUI doesn't hang while it downloads and uploads files

[No']

Hang on! I know!!!

Mrben wants to keep Yonkeltron's artwork until LRL'07 for himself.

[mrben]

MrBen, this awesome. Nice one.

I may transfer the LR mirror feed to lugradio.org soon, depending on what Aq and Jono think, as it's their server

Anyway, what format, or whatever, should the mirror feed be in to help you?

It doesn't really make much difference. The program simply grabs tags from the XML - it's nothing particularly complicated once you get round Pythons slightly idiosyncratic XML handling.

[mrben]

OK - in true 'pretending-to-work-at-work-but-instead-working-on-a-more-interesting-python-project' form, here is the the beginnings of a GUI:

code
HTML-ised source code

It's based on wxPython 2.6, although should work with earlier versions, but you will need wx installed. Renders fine on Windows - haven't checked it under Linux yet.

Most of the functionality is there, although it's not fully tested as yet. Oh, and you can only set the preferences in a file called .oidargul in the directory that you run it from - I hope to change that soon

Oh - one last thing. You will need to fill in the .oidargul file - there is a demo one here - it should be fairly self explanatory, but if you don't have everything filled out (apart from the [Status] section) then it will probably b0rk itself.

Enjoy!

<edit>and another thing - the original oidargul3.py file needs to be in the same directory as the other 2 files, otherwise it won't find the module</edit>

[jono]

Once again mrben pulls an impressive feat of commitment to LUGRadio. Thanks man...

[mrben]

Once again mrben pulls an impressive feat of commitment to LUGRadio. Thanks man...

Heh - either that or an impressive lack of commitment to doing any real work.......

I've got home to discover an interesting problem running under Linux - possibly to do with a mismatch of wxPython versions. If you get an error which ends something like this:

Code: Select all

AttributeError: FileTree instance has no attribute 'Bind'


Then try this alternative version from here instead, which uses a slightly differently invocation to bind events to functions.

I've also realised in passing that at the moment it doesn't handle multiple ftp sources, which is a problem if you want to store different files on different mirrors - I might see if I can sort that too.

Obviously the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and I would be grateful if any of the mirror maintainers could give it a try and post their feedback/comments. I am hoping that by the next release I'll have something that I can actually use......

[baafie]

I'm not trying to be a dick here, but why not use an existing mirroring+monitoring system?

[mrben]

I'm not trying to be a dick here, but why not use an existing mirroring+monitoring system?

Say what?

I was not aware of an existing system - is there one that does all I need, including interacting with Aqs custom mirror script?

[baafie]

I was thinking more along the lines of Aq ditching his script and going with something like rsync and mirmon.