Jon Stahl wrote:
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Geir Bækholt · Jarn wrote:
On Dec 23, 2007, at 01:31 , Martin Aspeli wrote:
The PLIP also mentions a better RSS portlet. I won't be able to do
that, but rumour is that Wichert has done it in the "feedmixer"
portlet already. Is that correct? If not, do we have any other
volunteers?
Feedmixer is a better RSS portlet, and should cover most usecases. It
aggregates multiple feeds to one (and includes a "more…" listing.) ,
but you can easily cover the simple usecase of a single feed as well.
This is what I send to Martin earlier:
Feedmixer is not a 'better' portlet (even if its implementation
actually is better). Feedmixer serves a different purpose: a
portlet and page that shows data aggregated from multiple feeds.
That is quite different than what the standard RSS portlet does:
that makes it extremely easy to add a portlet for a single feed.
The use cases differ enough to warrant
separate portlets.
The main problem people have with the current RSS portlet is that
it does not work for anonymous users, or it only works as long as
there are authenticated users active as well. I fixed that in svn
a while ago but that hasn't made it into a release yet.
based on that we'll keep feedmixer as a separate product.
Wichert.
Obviously, I defer to pretty much everyone on the pure technical issues,
but, having used both the included RSS portlet and feedmixer, I think
that Feedmixer is indeed a vastly "better" RSS portlet (in addition to
its other features).
As Geir points out, Feedmixer supports every use case that the basic RSS
portlet does, and several more besides. I think it is in fact
confusing to have two different RSS portlet products like this; why not
just ship the more powerful one and focus all of our effort on
maintaining that one, rather than spread effort across two products?
The 'original' RSS portlet has two important qualities:
* it is easier to configure: it picks up the portlet title from the feed
title automatically.
* it integrates the RSS feed source more tightly by going there directly
for the full list of feed items instead of creating a separate page in
plone
Both are useful qualities imho.
Wichert.
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