[Gambas-user] gambas3-gb-web-feed not documented on wiki?

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> In preparation for doing some RSS work, I am researching to see what
> programming language has the libraries/components that might be useful. Of
> course, my first choice was Gambas. So, I looked at
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp to see if there is a RSS utility component.
> I found none.
> 
> So then, looking at the software available through my distro's package
> manager I noticed gambas3-gb-web-feed. Thinking I perhaps missed it on the
> wiki, I took another look. I still don't see it.
> 
> Is this an oversight, or am I not looking hard enough?
> 

Yes, it's missing from the component index, probably because it's new with
Gambas 3.10 (that page has to be regenerated by the server software to take
the new component into account, I suppose).

The documentation itself is available in the wiki already: [1]. These pages
are automatically generated from my in-source documentation, but the class-
level help seems to be missing from the wiki. Your best bet for the complete
picture of how the component works is (as always) to look into the source code.
The component is written in Gambas and is mostly translating between a tree
of Gambas objects and an XML document, but do ask if you have a question.

Note that there might be changes to some part of the interface concerning
Dates in the future, to take timezones into account (and I still believe
there are problems with the timezone conversion in Date.ToRFC822).
I talked about these with Benoit multiple times [2][3] but we never
reached a conclusion that I could work with.

Regards,
Tobi

[1] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.web.feed
[2] https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2017-April/059915.html
[3] https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/devel/2017-July/006148.html

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