noos

In the last 2 days Ak and me did a lot of coding stuff on noos at 23c3.

noos is a text mode RSS feed reader which has all the features missing from snownews and is not as slow as and has a different usability concept than raggle.

We found lots of bugs and implemented new features so the last 2 days were very productive.
At the moment noos depends on STFL for the UI, libmrss, libidn, libnxml and sqlite.

Installing noos is a bit tricky at the moment because of the dependencies. STFL is pretty easy to install, also sqlite.
What sucks is that mrss depends to nxml which wont compile in the latest version

So be sure to install and compile version 0.14 of libmrss and 0.15 of libnxml to make it work.
Dont forget to add /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ls.so.conf and run ldconfig afterwards.

You can get an svn snapshot of noos on:
http://nion.modprobe.de/noos-061228.tar.gz.



At the moment noos is able to:
- import and export OPML
- refresh feed content in the background (snownews can't, using pthread)
- read RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0
- show only feeds with new content (like l in slrn)
- jump to next unread feed item
- save feed content to files
- open feed in browser (defined in ~/.noos/config -> browser lynx)
- mark feeds as read without actually reading them...
- nice rendering of the xml (see links and images.. like in second screenshot)
- many more things i forgot to mention

But noos still has some problems which can be tracked back to libmrss and libnxml.
For example some feed content can not be displayed correctly because libmrss doesnt
handle contend:encoded tag correctly (to workaround this use RSS 1.0 instead of RSS 2.0 feed if available) or an XML file like http://nion.modprobe.de/index.rss2 would crash because of an invalid pointer in free() in libmrss. Maybe they will be replaced by an own implementation or a better library.

There is still alot of stuff on the noos TODO list but its really usable yet and its definitely worth following the development.

If you use debian you can use the stfl package I made:
http://nion.modprobe.de/debian/stfl/libstfl-dev_0.7-1_i386.deb

P.S. some people asked me about 23c3, to make it short, I think it's not as good as in the last years (including the lectures) and the price of course is horrible