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I guess it seemed like such a trivial fix. What's to explain? If you know the code you go to where you make the file name and put a limit on it. I guess there a

I guess it seemed like such a trivial fix. What's to explain? If you know the code you go to where you make the file name and put a limit on it. I guess there are other considerations that I am not aware of. I was not grumpy. I thought I was doing everyone a favor. To be treated like they were doing me a favor induced cognitive dissonance. Edit: Just to clear I love youtube-dl and use it all the time. I greatly appreciate all the work that went into it. I have no problem with the maintainers. I only posted my original comment because I want to contribute to open source now that I am retired and wondered what went wrong my first time. Now I know and I thank everyone who took the time to comment.

DarylZero 5y ago
Long ago I created a bug for this (not a PR) myself. IIRC the problem is the author had some grand design for platform neutral filename handling or something, so didn't want some simple fix that would be "temporary." It's just silly and lacking perspective. Letting the bug sit in there while procrastinating on some larger project. Waiting for some ideal circumstance, but not acting to create it, so nothing happens. But, to do the "temporary fix," you have to admit you're not acting on your goal. Fitting that the author would abandon the project, if they are making such intentions and not following through.