Re: A gripe and some questions

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Nick">

> > it's hard to provide redundancy for this stuff
> Why?  Perhaps I'm missing something, but if multiple sources exist, why
> not support all of them (much in the same way GARNOME supports multiple
> FTP sites for source downloads).  Even if each weather reporting service
> has a unique interface/format, you can create a common interface and
> package each separately.  When one fails, move to the next.

Because they're totally non-standard, we have to do all sorts of stupid
things to screen-scrape sites, etc., etc. Talk to KevinV about it. It's not
pretty.

- Jeff

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