Hi, > On Apr 26, 2025, at 6:07 AM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I actually been meaning to ask what is RSS? > I think it is a news feed thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS > > i dont know how to set it up on my pc. it would be quite useful to be > notified on a new freedos software versions It used to be directly supported by web browsers. At one time, FireFox could even create a “bookmark” for a feed that would change automatically when new content was added. But, all that stuff has disappeared from modern browsers. It now requires additional software to “read” an RSS feed. As far as I know, there are not any RSS readers for DOS. At some point, I would like to add support for the online repositories to FDIMPLES. But, it won’t use RSS for tracking updates. Instead, it will use the CSV (comma separated version, spreadsheet type file) created by both FDRepo v2 & v3 to determine what files are available and/or have been updated. If you visit on of the download/update repositories (like https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.4/pkg-html/index.html ) managed by FDRepo v2, there are links at the bottom of the main page to the CSV and RSS files. But again, without special software, the RSS feed will just be an odd looking XML file. :-) Jerome > > >> On Sat, 2025-04-26 at 05:08 -0400, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel >> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Does anybody use RSS anymore? >> >> As far as I know, all the major web browsers (at least the ones I use >> regularly), >> dropped support for RSS many years ago. >> >> The main reason I ask is in regards to the upcoming FDRepo v3. >> >> The current FDRepo v2 has an RSS feed that is lists new package >> updates. >> >> However, I never received any feedback in regards to that feature. >> >> This leads me to think precisely zero people ever used it. >> >> I think since RSS has been relegated to obscurity and the lack of >> apparent >> users to the update feeds in the repositories, the feature will not >> be included >> in FDRepo v3. At least not initially. >> >> Then later on, if there is sufficient complaining about not providing >> the update >> RSS feed, I find the time and feel like it eventually add support for >> it into v3 of >> FDRepo. >> >> After all, it does not take long to get complaints when a feature >> someone >> uses disappears. For example, when preparing the download >> repositories >> for FreeDOS1.4. I preformed a clean-up and deleted a a bunch of >> stuff. >> One thing I deleted was the automatically generated ISOs of all the >> packages >> in the repositories. By design, FDRepo v2 would keep that ISO up to >> date. >> However, if it did not exist, it would start maintaining one unless >> specifically told >> to do so. It took about 2 days before I started hearing “where is my >> ISO?" >> >> It is not difficult to create the feed. I just don’t see a point in >> doing that extra >> work for something nobody uses. >> >> Oh BTW, Stage 2 is moving along great. If all continues to go well, >> v3 will >> hopefully be ready for use around the end of this month. >> >> :-) >> >> Jerome >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > -- > founder of yellow rose group 💛️ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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