[Booki-dev] internetarchive/epub/epub.py changes

[mccabe at archive.org]

Adam -

Thanks for the rapid feedback :)

I've broken things trying to get the new code into the site, especially
with some new wiring.

I think it should work now.  (For your first link; you might give 45 mins
or so for the others.)

The illinois book is showing up truncated, for reasons not currently clear
to me.

Mike




> mike...
>
> we are trying to get epubs from archive with urls like :
> http://archive.org/download/qhoratiflaccica00flacgoog/qhoratiflaccica00flacgoog.epub
>
> but they are failing with :
> "epub creation failed - no goArray"
>
> It is now producing this error for the majority of ebooks including ones
> we had previously tested. For example the file illinoiswayofbea00mill
> that Raj tested returns this error from the archive.org server.
>
> is this related to your changes?
>
>
> adam
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 21:41 -0700, mccabe at archive.org wrote:
>> Douglas, all -
>>
>> I just pushed a large set of changes to the internetarchive/epub git
>> repository, and I wanted to give you a heads up, lest you pull from the
>> the tree and break something.
>>
>> Most of the work was towards adapting the epub generation code to
>> producing 'daisy' talking book files, suitable for use in text-to-speech
>> devices.  As it was my second chance at output code, I made some
>> changes,
>> and later migrated those changes back to the epub generation code.
>>
>> As such, the API has changed somewhat - mostly in a few method
>> signatures,
>> but also in the handling of metadata.  I've switched to building
>> navigation information incrementally, with a stack model - it's worked
>> for
>> daisy files, but isn't fully baked for epubs.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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