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

Benoît Minisini g4mba5 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 18:57:37 CET 2017


Le 12/12/2017 à 18:45, Tobias Boege a écrit :
> 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
> 

I just added it to the component wiki index. It has to be done manually.

-- 
Benoît Minisini


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