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

[Sven Barth]

On 24.11.2012 10:55, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> 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. :)

Regards,
Sven