Again on feeds in Gemini format

November 18, 2020 9:45 PM, "acdw (Case)" <acdw at acdw.net> wrote:

-quote of Emilis' email snipped-
> Just as a proof of concept, at least generating Atom feeds using plain 
shell script (plus a little
> extra) is possible. See my new project, gemshimfeed:
> 
> https://git.sr.ht/~acdw/gemshimfeed
> 
> It only depends on GNU find and stat, both of which can be replaced 
easily at run time. Or hell,
> it's a shell script, you can edit it yourself :)
> 
> As far as parsing an Atom feed goes, that's a little tricker -- but I 
think gemshimfeed shows it's
> not hard to generate the feed. I implemented this without even reading 
the spec, I think; I just
> read the Wikipedia article on the protocol.

Generating a feed was never the hard part. Make a shell script that's a) 
simple and b) parses an Atom feed correctly and then we'll talk about how 
easy parsing an Atom feed with the bare minimum of tools is.

Meanwhile, we don't need to talk about how easy parsing the plain gemtext 
feed is, because it's *that* easy. Of course it's easy to parse gemtext; 
the entire point of gemtext is to be easy to parse.

Just my two cents,
Robert "khuxkm" Miles

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