On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 17:15:09 -0400 "trondd" <tro...@kagu-tsuchi.com> wrote:
> On Mon, July 5, 2021 9:53 am, Charlene Wendling wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The below diff updates snownews to 1.8 with a new repo owner and > > finally a lot of modern features [0]! I tend to separate upstream vs > > ports changes, but it's unpractical here: > > > >> Added Atom feed support > > Modify COMMENT and DESCR accordingly. While here, update to valid > > feeds and a mix of RSS and Atom. HTTPS is used where applicable. > >> Use curl for networking > > Add proper LIB_DEPENDS, remove README now that HTTPS is supported. > > There is a year 2038 printf() warning, but it would require to > > sprinkle CURLINFO_FILETIME_T instead of CURLINFO_FILETIME in many > > places first. Also, refresh WANTLIB, and remove the netio.c patch > > accordingly. > >> Use the OPML format to store the feed list, and XDG dirs > > Snownews-1.8 will migrate your urls file to the OPML format in > > ~/.config/snownews where you can find other settings (key > > bindings, colors etc.). The OPML conversion tools (snow2opml, > > opml2snow) have been removed, so we don't need p5-XML-LibXML as a > > RUN_DEPENDS. > >> Use UTF-8 everywhere (including manpages) > > The upstream configuration system couldn't find our ncurses > > library with wide chars support, so i needed to tweak CFLAGS and > > LDFLAGS. > >> Deal with lack of verbosity for the fake stage > > The most painful part of that update has been the fake stage, > > because upstream hides issued commands, so i preferred to > > unsilence them. > > > > All the rest is mostly updating old patches. > > > > Testing: > > > > It builds and works fine on amd64 and macppc. > > > > Note that feed items' text enclosed in '<content type="xhtml">' is > > not displayed (yet?). > > > > Comments and feedback are welcome, > > > > Charlène. > > > > > > [0] https://github.com/msharov/snownews/releases > > > > Thanks. I use snownews. It converted my configs and works as > epxected. I had to go back in and clean up all the calls to external > conversion tools that the previous version needed but that's to be > expected. Worked either way. > > Tim. > You're welcome! I tried beforehand with a few feeds, but was not 100% sure how the migration would really fare for current users. The commit message will mention this, but given it works in either way it should be smooth for everyone. Charlène.
