[fpc-devel] [OFF-TOPIC] EazyRSS - A simple writer and reader for the RSS protocol

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Sven Barth wrote:

> On 24.11.2012 10:55, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Sven Barth wrote:
>> 
>>> On 24.11.2012 00:41, silvioprog wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> The Freepascal has been important to my life, so it's very nice to
>>>> contribute with some code.
>>>> I didn't know FPHTTPClient. But it helped me a lot since I got a native
>>>> implementation for a component.
>>>> I have implemented a component to download and parse RSS. There is
>>>> aclass to provide the RSS service and another to read news from a
>>>> channel.
>>>> 
>>>> The result of this work is here:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/silvioprog/easyrss
>>> 
>>> Perhaps I should finally revive the idea of programming my own RSS
>>> reader (using WebKit for rendering). :D
>> 
>> Should I regard this as a sign that you'd approve of including this in
>> FPC ?
>> I don't use RSS myself, but I know many people like it, so why not
>> include it:
>> With so many things moving to web, it might be useful to have...
>
> I would use it regardless of whether we include it or not just because it 
> saves me work. :)

That does not really answer my question... ;-)

Michael.