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

[T Lee Davidson]

On 12/12/2017 12:57 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you both, Tobi and Benoît.

On a side note, not seeing the new gb.web.feed link until I manually refreshed the page made me wonder if it might be useful to 
add a HTML Expires meta to the wiki pages for those who don't know a new link should be there.


-- 
Lee