General (backend) infrastructure

done

• install some news2rss thingy, e.g.
  • [done] News2RSS (perl)
  • nntp2rss (php)
  • nntp//rss (java)
• install RSS-Plugin for TWiki, see:
  • RichSiteSummary
  • WikiRssExtension
• publish rss-feeds to http://netfrag.org/rss/ for performance reasons (cronjob)
• patch php-frontend of mnoGoSearch to return results as rss-items, see changes to mnoGoSearch-php
• install basic xmlrpc-daemon @ netfrag.org (methods: ping, giveScalar, giveArray, giveHash, fraggleSync)
• "Ist es möglich, XML-Dokumente via XML-RPC zu übertragen? Wenn ja - wie?" %BR% Hier gab es keine Probleme: Das XML-Dokument, das in eine TWiki-Page eingebettet ist (FraggleXml) wird transparent base64-enkodiert übertragen.

todo

• GUI-Framework (see what Boa Constructor generates)
  • read about Boa's Custom Classes (that's how FraggleHtmlWindow^? is embedded)
• research: Browser-Komponente? a: wxHtmlWindow
• research: use XTM (XML Topic Map)?
• create some sidebar services (e.g. MozillaSidebar^? for accessing search.netfrag.org)
• support for multiple server profiles
• taskbar icon for kde / gnome
• use C3 or XED for XML editing?

Get into Python

• [xabbu] Working on TaskbarIcon^? class with wxTaskbarIcon http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2003-10/3413.html
• [joko & xabbu] get familiar with Python's data structures here.
• [DONE-joko] have a decent "dumpVar" function in toolkit and play with it: dump.py
• [DONE-xabbu] get familiar with Boa Constructor and do some basic stuff with some GUI-Widgets
• [joko & xabbu] do something with loops and iterate through data structures
• [xabbu] GUI & Events?
• [DONE] XML-RPC: [joko] setup server endpoint (http://netfrag.org:3333); [xabbu] play with client library, see xmlrpc.py

Program-Flow

• Startup
• loadFraggleXml for each Server-profile set in preferences
  • via XML-RPC (by username)
  • from URL (directly)
• display changes

Python libraries

• XML-RPC:
  • py-xmlrpc
  • pythonxmlrpc: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xmlrpclib.html
  • our choice: XML-RPC for Python: xmlrpclib - download here
• RSS & Co.:
  • RssLibraries
  • RSS for Python
  • PyRSS2Gen
  • A Python library for working with messages
  • RSS and stuff
  • Redland RDF Application Framework
  • RDFLib
• wxWidgets:
  • wxPython
• Command-line parsing:
  • getopt -- Parser for command line options
  • Optik (aka optparse)
• XML:
  • PyXML
• NNTP:
  • nntplib -- NNTP protocol client
• HTTP:
  • urllib -- Open arbitrary resources by URL
  • urllib2 -- extensible library for opening URLs

• Twisted maybe worth a look...

PHP libraries

• Text_Wiki
• Text_Diff

Python RSS Aggregators

• Simple Python Aggregator
• Spycyroll - Python RSS Aggregator
• Rss aggregator with twisted
• The Chumpologica - an RSS feed combiner
• peerkat
• Raven RSS Reader
• Pears - (wxWindows-GUI!)
• Universal Feed Parser 3.0 beta