Re: Read Heise newsticker: hackers wanted

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Raymond Scholz <ray-2002@zonix.de> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Do you think it makes sense to incorporate this into Gnus in some
>> way?  (It needs to be polished up before that.)
>
> Hm, what about the idea of separating moving targets like those rss
> functions, nnslashdot, nnwarchive etc. from the main Gnus
> distribution?  It'll be helpful for users that don't want to upgrade
> to Gnus development versions just for the sake of reading those news
> services.

That is a good idea.  But it seems nobody has stepped forward to do
the work.

> But I've no good idea how to implement this.  Should there be a
> subscription service (mailing list or some "Gnus news channel" within
> Gnus itself)?  What kind of information should be transferred (plain
> Elisp files or some meta format to be defined)?

It might be better to factor out the parsing code and to distribute
it.  Maybe the parsing is done via regexes, then regexes could be
factored out.  Or maybe the parsing is done via XPath, then XPath
queries could be factored out.  Or a Lisp function, for full
generality.

kai
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