Changes -- list of user visible changes -*- outline -*- * Babble 0.07 -- 2004-04-25 ** Babble::Cache made into a proper object Babble::Cache was made into a proper object, it is not a global hash with accessor methods anymore. ** Improved RSS parsing The RSS DataSource was modified to not let the whole application die when the underlying XML::Parser die()s. So-called item hooks were also implemented, to be able to store custom data from the feed in the Babble::Document object. ** Improved caching Babble will only cache feeds that are known to be valid (ie, parsable). * Babble 0.06 -- 2004-04-12 ** More forgiving parsing and data handling Babble::DataSource::RSS was made a bit more robust (handles different date formats, and ... stuff), and bin/babble was teached to correct some more common problems in RSS feeds. ** Feed image support Babble is now able to parse, generate and handle feed images, as seen in RSS feeds. Useful when one would like to see a picture of article authors near their article. The planet, planet_gray and XML themes have support for displaying these, as does the RSS output method. ** Babble::Theme::XML has a new format Babble::Theme::XML has a new format: rss10, which outputs RSS 1.0 feeds. Intended to be used instead of Babble::Output:RSS, when one wants more control over the content of the feed. ** Demise of Babble::Output::HTML It was found that HTML::Template is not too useful with Babble, so all the themes that were using it, were converted to Template Toolkit, and Babble::Output::HTML was removed. ** Various layout fixes and improvements A few glitches and bugs were fixed in the templates. ** Limiting support reimplemented Moved most of the limiting support out from the templates. This means that applications using Babble must do the limiting themselves, and the templates will use the collection they pass back to them. See bin/babble for an example on how to implement this. ** Fixed a bug which prevented Babble to be used when installed Due to me testing Babble from the source tree, and not when it was installed, Babble::Output::TTk did not pass the ABSOLUTE option to template toolkit, resulting in run-time errors when trying to run babble after a ./Build install. This is now fixed. * Babble 0.05 -- 2004-04-03 ** Improved limiting support A different kind of limiting support was made accessible to the Template Toolkit based templates: limiting by age. Items older than a specified value will not be handled by the template. ** Improved caching Babble is now able to cache parsed data (disabled by default, though), which results in significantly faster processing, but increases memory usage too. Also, the Babble::Cache module can store the cache contents in different formats now. The single new format is Storable, which is not human readable, but much faster than Data::Dumper. ** Callback support while collecting feeds It is now possible to run callback routines whenever a source is about to collected and when collection ended. This gives one a way to print status messages or the like. ** New, DBI based datasource A new datasource module, Babble::DataSource::DBI was added to the distribution. It can be used to collect feed data from any kind of database DBI might have support for. ** New, Mail based datasource A new datasource module, Babble::DataSource::Mail was added to the distribution. It can be used to collect feed data from, say, mailboxes. One can use this for setting up a system where mail intended for blogging is saved in a separate mailbox, and this module is used for processing it. ** Improved test suite Many new tests were added to the test suite, to achieve even higher codepath coverage (still not enough, but we're getting there). ** Example bin/babble frontend enhancements The example `bin/babble' frontend was extended to understand parameters that should be eval-ed before usage (these are prefixed with a `&'), and to be able to read the configuration file from its standard input. * Babble 0.04 -- 2004-03-28 ** Caching support Modified Babble::Transport and added a Babble::cache method to Babble::Utils for optional feed and item caching. This is a much more efficient way than the datecache processor was. It can also save considerable bandwidth. ** Limiting support Implemented support for limiting the number of elements returned by Babble::Document::Collection's search() and sort() methods. ** Improved test suite The test suite received an additional file: t/pod.t, to test the documentation for syntax correctness. ** Improved filtering support One can now specify a custom comparsion function to be used for filtering, searching. This makes one able to limit the items in an aggregation to, say, items only a week old or younger. * Babble 0.03 -- 2004-03-14 ** Some internal restructuring. Implemented a Babble::Transport module, for transparent location access (currently only used by Babble::DataSource::RSS and Babble::DataSource::OPML). ** Theme updates and modifications. The FOAF and OPML formats from planet_ttk were moved to a separate XML theme, planet_ttk got renamed to planet_grey and received some layout updates. ** New and improved example script There is a new and improved example script, that can be used to set up Babbles with only minimal configuration and no coding. It does not support all the bells and whistles of Babble, though. ** New, OPML data source A new DataSource module, Babble::DataSource::OPML was added to the distribution. It can parse OPML documents, and collect the RSS feeds mentioned therein. * Babble 0.02 -- 2004-03-09 ** Lots of documentation updates. Documentation was cleared up in many places, and was generally made better. ** Internal restructuring. The internal structure of objects was greatly simplified, resulting in less memory usage and faster operation. Not to mention easier maintainance. ** Date parsing fixes The Babble::DataSource modules often failed to parse the dates they encountered, this was fixed. ** New output method and theme There is a new output method, Babble::Output::TTk, which uses the Template Toolkit, and is the preferred output method as of now. There is a highly customisable theme based on it, Babble::Theme::planet_ttk. This one provides not only a HTML template, but FOAF and OPML templates too. ** Test suite The beginnings of a test suite is included with this release. * Babble 0.01 -- 2004-03-07 Initial release. # arch-tag: 6c29c03c-d34a-45ec-8078-1dd14c178b5d