XMLTV 0.5.1 released

XMLTV version 0.5.1 is out.  This is mostly a bugfix and
reduced-system-requirements release.  But there is a new feature
included in tv_check.

The most welcome change for new users will be that fewer Perl modules
are required.  This comes partly from new code to work around missing
modules and partly from making some parts of the installation
optional, so if you don't run a particular xmltv program, you don't
need to install its libraries.  I can only apologize for not doing
this earlier.

However there is one _added_ dependency compared to version 0.5: the
module XML::Twig.  This replaces XML::DOM, which we used before; the
new XML parsing code is faster and uses less memory.  XML::Twig will
let us improve performance further in later releases.

As discussed on the xmltv-users and xmltv-devel lists, the treatment
of character encodings has changed so that the output XML uses the
same encoding as the input.  This shouldn't affect most users.

Tv_check has a new feature to fetch its shows list from the
myreplaytv.com site.  Have a look at the tv_check documentation.

Other small improvements include tv_grab_uk, which should be faster
and more robust.

Get the file releases from Sourceforge:
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39046>.

-- 
Ed Avis <[email protected]>