New framework: KF5Syndication

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11:02:31 PM Frank Osterfeld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > KF5Syndication is an RSS/Atom parsing library. It also provides API to
> > fetch feeds directly from network.
> > 
> > It's a Tier 3 Framework (depends on KCodecs and KIO). AFAIK it's currently
> > being used only by Akregator.
> 
> The Akonadi RSS resources (still lingering in some work branch, I assume?)
> and some plasmoids were also using it.
> 
> As for the dependencies: The KIO dependency is used only by a single class,
> “DataRetriever”, which is a rather thin wrapper around KIO::get to download
> the feed file. The actual parser only requires KCodecs from KF. So I wonder
> if it would make sense to either drop the retriever classes completely,
> split them into another library (too tiny I guess), or make them optional
> in the build.

If KIO is really needed only to fetch the feeds then I would say we can drop 
it. If Akregator ever gets ported to Akonadi :), then the retrieval will be 
handled by the resource and other applications using Syndication will probably 
prefer their own retrieval methods and can always fall back to just calling 
KIO::get themselves.

Dan

> 
> Frank

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