Straw - a GTK RSS program

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:56:48 -0700, Manalive <manalive at gmx.net> wrote:

> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:46:09 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke 
>> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 21:57, Manalive wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have been looking for a GTK RSS/news aggregator program like KRSS 
>>>> that
>>>> is already in the ports. There is none available in ports that has a 
>>>> GTK
>>>> version.
>>>>
>>>> However, there is one called Straw (http://www.nongnu.org/straw/). I 
>>>> am
>>>> interested in trying it out, but my skills aren't quite up to par to 
>>>> try
>>>> to compile and install from source. Is there anyone interested in
>>>> creating a port for this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Mezz was working on it, but this is a monster, and I think there are
>>> some threading issues keeping it from working correctly.
>>
>>
>> Yep, the issue is with ADNS stuff.. It might be because of not safe 
>> thread or something else, I just have no idea.. Anyway, I have the shar 
>> of Straw port in case if you, Manalive, want to try and poke with it. 
>> Here's an attach of straw.shar.
>>
>> I personal am looking out on Liferea[1] now, which it's written in C 
>> and it just work better than Straw. Liferea is young and have some 
>> bugs. Liferea (news/liferea) is in the ports tree, but I have my own 
>> one here and it's more up to date. Someone beat me to put Liferea in 
>> the ports tree. If anyone want my Liferea port, just let me know.
>>
>> [1] http://liferea.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>
> Thanks for the info! I will try out Liferea first. Strange that I didn't 
> find it via Freshports search...

Here are more list.. :-)

http://liferea.sourceforge.net (C, GTK2)
http://syndigator.sourceforge.net (Perl, GTK2)
http://www.nongnu.org/straw/ (Python, GTK2)
http://rssowl.sourceforge.net (Java, SWT)
http://krss.sourceforge.net (QT2)
http://gtksharprss.sourceforge.net (C#, GTK Sharp) Too bad, Mono does not 
work on FreeBSD very well.
http://www.newsmonster.org (Mozilla plugin?)

I am still searching for a perfect one, but I still can't find one yet. I 
hope, Liferea will be one if it will do very well in the next months.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Ciao,
> Jonas


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