From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2004-02-18T06:55:38+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Release of rubric 0.4 (long)

Hi!

Quite some time has passed since the last release of rubric. The
reason is that quite a lot did change.

rubric is a program that creates an HTML portal page from local
copies of RSS feeds that are downloaded by rss_fetcher (included).

Author:   Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@rubyforge.org>
Homepage: http://rubric.rubyforge.org/
Download: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubric/
RSS-Feed: http://rubric.rubyforge.org/rubric.rubyforge.org.rss
License:  GPL 2.0 or later

rubric and rss_fetcher now accept multiple file names so that you can
update several feed collections with just one call. Both programs
also accept a regular expression. Only feeds with urls matching the
regular expression are updated.

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rss_fetcher [--help|-h] [--only <regular_expression>]
            [-o <regular_expression>] [<file_name> ...]

--help, -h
        show this help

--only, -o
        Only download feeds with URLs matching <regular_expression>

The configuration file <file_name> defaults to $HOME/.rubric/default

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rubric  [--help|-h] [--only <regular_expression>]
        [-o <regular_expression>] [<file_name> ...]

--help, -h
        show this help

--only, -o
        Only import feeds with URLs matching <regular_expression>

The configuration file <file_name> defaults to $HOME/.rubric/default

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Config file format has changed from Ruby to YAML. This has mainly
been done to reduce security issues resulting from the config file
being a ruby script but it also makes the config file shorter.

The way of specifying hold times has strongly been improved. You can
specify

    n seconds as
        n, n s, n sec, n secs, n second, and n seconds.

    n minutes as
        n m, n min, n mins, n minute, and n minutes.

    n hours as
        n h, n hour, and n hours.

    n weeks as
        n w, n week, and n weeks.

You can still use multiplications so that the following values are
identical:

 * 1 week
 * 7 days
 * 7 * 24 hours
 * 7 * 24 * 60 minutes
 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 seconds

Addition is also possible and can be done in two ways:

 * 1 week + 2 days + 3 hours + 5 minutes + 7 seconds
 * 1 week, 2 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes, 7 seconds

Note that while the samples only show integers you can use floats as
well.

Updated data in sample config file. Among other changes it now
includes http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/index.rdf.

Rubric now correctly renders feeds like http://www.swr3.de/rdf-feed/
that contain pre-formatted text with line ends that are not encoded
as CR+LF (Unix) but only using one of these characters (Windows, Mac
OS, etc.).

Feeds like http://www.oekosmos.de/article/rssheadlines provide
http://www.oekosmos.de as channel url but an empty channel title. In
such cases rubric now overrides the channel title by the cannel url
without the protocol part - in the given case by www.oekosmos.de.

Rubric now correctly renders the Linux Gazette feed that is available
at http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/feed

Rubric now correctly renders the feed that is available at
http://www.rubyxml.com/index.rb/rss.

Old host, path, and port scheme now has become unsupported, use url.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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