Option to read a module playlist from a file/stdin?
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Description
Something I do a lot for getting aggregate data when testing fixes on more common module formats is I run checks on the ModLand or Mod Archive collections with a program that takes a list of newline-separated filenames. Doing a similar test with xmp --load-only would be useful to determine if anything new is rejected by libxmp after implementing a patch. If there's a way to do this with xmp without invoking multiple xmp processes, I missed it. (The ModLand 2016 dump I test with has >20k Impulse Tracker modules, for example, so while argv is fine for less common formats, it just isn't adequate in this case.)
Would a feature like this be generally useful?
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Research direction
Start by tracing the xmp --load-only command's current argv handling and how it processes filenames. Compare the requested newline-separated filename input from a file or stdin with the existing command-line behavior. Done means a large playlist can be checked in one xmp process while preserving the current invocation style.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100