Re: features & misfeatures

Hi Jos,

On Jan 26, 2005, at 15:41, Jos wrote:

>> Anyone else having an opinion about this sorry aggregator business?
>
> When i first started using Zoe (a couple of years ago), i found the 
> rss/email aggregator a boon. However, there are now so many other 
> options and tools available, that fit more closely to my needs, that i 
> no longer use it.
>
> Seeing as there are tools that do exactly what Zoe's aggregator does, 
> and are being maintained and updated currently, it seems that dropping 
> that part of Zoe is no real loss.

Exactly. Plus if you want to have your RSS feeds indexed by ZOË there 
are several rss2mail gateways available as well.

>  And this removes another bit of code for you have to maintain, so you 
> can concentrate on the main app's development.

Right on!

Talking of which, the most likely enhancement in the very near future 
will be attachment indexing (e.g. MS Word, PDF and RTF documents as 
well as some other type of binaries like MP3s and different flavors of 
images)...

>
> Also, i think loosing the blogger XML-RPC interface is no problem.

Excellent! It's all gone :)

Cheers,

R.



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