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
