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Actually, please don’t mind this post people…
After thinking a bit about it, I realized what a stupid idea this was. It would
eat time that could be much more wisely spent on improving other parts, and at a
very questionable gain. I’ll just link the SourceForge pages that contain
the file releases. Fred From:
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Behalf Of Fredrik Grohn Hi, I have been looking into the possibilities to integrate the
WiX web site with the SourceForge file release system. The intention is to
extract information about file releases in order to display them under the
“Downloads” section of the web site. This would reduce the maintenance overhead
of keeping the information up to date in two locations. What I have found so far is that the only export method
SourceForge seems to provide is an RSS feed. The consequence of that, I think,
is that it's not possible to just fetch all existing file releases when needed.
Instead one would have to keep a database containing all known file releases,
and fetch new releases as they are provided. I'm quite hesitant to solve it this way however. Adding a
database and code that maintains it adds a lot of complexity. But on the other
hand it is probably better than manually maintaining the information in two
places. The way I imagine it, such a solution would include the
following parts:
What do you guys think? Would this he a good idea? Does
anybody know of a better way to extract this information from SourceForge than
through the RSS feed? Fred |
