split youtube-dl on several modules

[vvavrychuk]

It is worth to split youtube-dl on several modules, e.g. youtube.py, metacafe.py, dailymotion.py and so on. Then it is possible to add "makefile" which will combine those files into youtube-dl file.

This approach is applied in https://github.com/sstephenson/prototype library for example.
As a rakefile analogue can be used distutils, scons.

By splitting youtube-dl it will be more easy to read, more easy to merge and source will not blow up in the case of adding support of lots new sites.

What do you think?

[rg3]

Sorry, but that won't happen. I want users to be able to simply download a single file to deploy the program on any platform. Your approach defeats the purpose, and the codebase is small.

[vvavrychuk]

Sure, user will be able to download single youtube-dl. Thats why setup.py is needed. Upon every release you can update youtube-dl by calling 'python setup.py' which will combine all *.py to youtube-dl. Then you can put youtube-dl to website repository.

Final desicion is of course after you. Please treat this issues just as a suggestion.