From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43047 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Read Heise newsticker: hackers wanted Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:01:30 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035178203 15510 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 24593 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2002 09:02:47 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 2002 09:02:47 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16aYpS-0005Ar-00; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 03:02:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 12 Feb 2002 03:02:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA02675 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 03:02:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24043 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2002 09:02:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24033 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2002 09:02:05 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 12 Feb 2002 09:02:05 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g1C91ab10224 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:01:36 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA27905; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:01:31 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id F0BC83AF6D; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:01:30 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Raymond Scholz's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:46:20 +0100") Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43047 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43047 Raymond Scholz writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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 --=20 ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)