RE: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Cassidy
Speaking of RSS and Atom and the like, it would be nice to see some autodiscovery for these feeds added into the pages [1] [2]. Thus by simply entering "http://testers.cpan.org/show/GD.html"; in my autodiscovery-aware aggregator, I can get the feed I want for the GD module. -Brian [1] http://dive

RE: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Cassidy
Tim, > -Original Message- > Like Nick, I've never really got into RSS feeds yet. I've always > wanted to find a way to have changes emails to me. Your post prompted There's also at least one email app with built-in RSS capabilities: Ximian Evolution [1] [2]. If you use MS Outlook you can

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Tim" == Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col45.html Tim> (Randal probably has a newer version of that by now) Nope, but it's on my todo list to build a Tk-POE desktop aggregator. (I'm currently using RSSLite, but I want it to be pr

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Brian" == Brian Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Also, use.perl.org has RSS feeds for all of their journals -- Brian> meaning I can easily keep track of Andy's ramblings [5]. :) Well, you can keep track of when Andy rambled, but not necessarily everything that it meant. :-) --

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:35:44AM -0400, Brian Cassidy wrote: > > Well, that's the basics anyway! Thanks Brian. Like Nick, I've never really got into RSS feeds yet. I've always wanted to find a way to have changes emails to me. Your post prompted me to look again and I found a couple of ready-m

RE: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Cassidy
Nick, > -Original Message- > Which is no doubt very nice - but can someone tell those of us > that might be casually reading this list what RSS and Atom actually > are? Sure. RSS [1] and Atom [2] are XML specifications for "content syndication". The easiest way to explain what "content sy

RE: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Brian Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi Leon, > >> -Original Message- >> Does anyone have any features they'd like to see on the website? I'm >> looking at extracting more information (Perl version, platform) and >> having pages (and thus RSS) per author. > >If you're going to do RSS,

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Adrian Howard
On 9 Mar 2004, at 13:35, Leon Brocard wrote: Adrian Howard sent the following bits through the ether: RSS feeds would be *very* nice :-) Easy request to fulfill - it already does has an RSS feed per distribution. The bottom of http://testers.cpan.org/show/Test-Exception.html points out: http://te

RE: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Cassidy
Hi Leon, > -Original Message- > Does anyone have any features they'd like to see on the website? I'm > looking at extracting more information (Perl version, platform) and > having pages (and thus RSS) per author. If you're going to do RSS, why not explore Atom [1] feeds as well? -Brian

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Adrian Howard sent the following bits through the ether: > RSS feeds would be *very* nice :-) Easy request to fulfill - it already does has an RSS feed per distribution. The bottom of http://testers.cpan.org/show/Test-Exception.html points out: http://testers.cpan.org/show/Test-Exception.rss So

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:14:10PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > Does anyone have any features they'd like to see on the website? I'm > looking at extracting more information (Perl version, platform) and > having pages (and thus RSS) per author. Version would certainly be a good thing to add. Most

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Adrian Howard
On 9 Mar 2004, at 13:14, Leon Brocard wrote: [snip] Does anyone have any features they'd like to see on the website? I'm looking at extracting more information (Perl version, platform) and having pages (and thus RSS) per author. RSS feeds would be *very* nice :-) Adrian