[Xmltv-devel] tv_grab_pt: completely remove Unicode::utf8simple dependency?

[Nick Morrott]

Encode has been a core Perl module for the last 3 major Perl releases
[1]. tv_grab_pt was patched a while ago (thanks to Chris Butler) to
prefer Encode if present, and fall back to Unicode::utf8simple if not.
Would it not be sensible to take this to its logical conclusion and
remove the now unrequired Unicode::utf8simple dependency completely
from XMLTV?

***@bart:~/dev/src/xmltv-cvs/xmltv$ fgrep -Ri "utf8simple" .
./README:Unicode::UTF8simple (if you want to run tv_grab_pt)
./blib/doc/README:Unicode::UTF8simple (if you want to run tv_grab_pt)
./Makefile.PL: 'Unicode::UTF8simple' => 0,
./grab/pt/tv_grab_pt: require Unicode::UTF8simple;
./grab/pt/tv_grab_pt: my $uref = new Unicode::UTF8simple;
./doc/exe_build.html: <pre>Class-MethodMaker v2.02<br>HTML-Tagset ...

I've usually built and tested XMLTV on Fedora but noticed that on
Debian (sid), configure will attempt to disable tv_grab_pt if
Unicode::utf8simple is not found (and which Debian does not package),
even though the grabber can run if Encode is present.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Nick

[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.8/index-modules-E.html