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.
