Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-21 Thread Seth Willits
On Aug 20, 2012, at 2:19 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > Have you considered handing off this portion of your code as part of an XPC > process? It could then quit and relaunch without your app needing to be. Yes, actually, but I figured a new open source framework would probably prove more useful a

Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-20 Thread Mike Abdullah
On 12 Aug 2012, at 19:53, Seth Willits wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: > >>> I reported these assertions years ago but did get no response. >> >> Disclaimer: I wrote about ⅔ of the PubSub framework. >> After I left Apple at the end of 2007 I don't think anyone else p

Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-15 Thread Andreas Mayer
Am 12.08.2012 um 20:53 schrieb Seth Willits : > The problem I'm having right now is if I add a feed, remove that feed, then > add a new feed with the same URL, grabbing the entries throws assertions. Hm. I don't seem to have this problem. I guess I'd need to make sure that the old feed is act

Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Aug 12, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Seth Willits wrote: > I find it somewhat surprising that there are dozens of Mac and iOS feed > readers out there, but no major open source Cocoa alternative to PubSub. FWIW, the feed reader Vienna is open source: http://www.vienna-rss.org/ It's not really framewo

Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-12 Thread Seth Willits
On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: >> I reported these assertions years ago but did get no response. > > Disclaimer: I wrote about ⅔ of the PubSub framework. > After I left Apple at the end of 2007 I don't think anyone else put any work > into the framework. It really seems like t

Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-12 Thread Jens Alfke
On Aug 12, 2012, at 4:34 AM, Christian Kienle wrote: > I reported these assertions years ago but did get no response. Disclaimer: I wrote about ⅔ of the PubSub framework. After I left Apple at the end of 2007 I don't think anyone else put any work into the framework. > If I had to do it again

Re: PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-12 Thread Christian Kienle
I have worked with PubSub a lot as well but I also did stumble over these assertions and I could also not work around them. The whole application I developed had to be put on hold because of this. I reported these assertions years ago but did get no response. If I had to do it again I would simp

PubSub Framework Alternative

2012-08-11 Thread Seth Willits
Anybody know of any good PubSub framework alternatives? My usage works OK with PubSub, except I'm running into assertions inside the framework for no fault of my own, and I can't see a workaround yet. The only other framework I've really found is Kevin Ballard's FeedParser. Wondering if there