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ChangeLog to RSS web service



Hanging out on joiito on IRC today, I read Ecyrd asking around about any tools to present GNU-style changelogs as an RSS feed. I couldn't find any, but I did find this changelog parser, apparently by Jonathan Blandford. So, when I had a few free minutes, I took some parts I had laying around, along with this parser, and made this:

This is at the "it works" stage. It needs much work in what it presents in an RSS feed, so feel free to suggest changes! shortname=cltorss

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  1. Karl-Martin Skontorp
    Posted September 2, 2003 at 1:47 pm | Permalink

    Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) can output logs in XML. It is really easy to use XSLT to generate RSS from these logs.

  2. l.m.orchard
    Posted September 2, 2003 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

    Well, the thing about this particular case is that this ChangeLog file is hand-maintained in the GNU style. I've also seen that Emacs has some tools for maintaining these files as well. Otherwise, there're tools for CVS logs to RSS as well.

    I do keep meaning to check out Subversion though.

  3. Janne Jalkanen
    Posted September 2, 2003 at 3:40 pm | Permalink

    Man, I owe you at least two beers now. Thanks again! :-)

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  1. By circle.ch weblog on 04 Sep 2003 at 2:58 am

    ChangeLog to RSS converter

    L. M. Orchard took Jonathan Blandfords [1] ChangeLog parser written in Python and added functionality to generate an RSS from a ChangeLog. Very cool indeed; I just discussed that with a couple of friends recently and proposed as well to look out for a ...