2 posts tagged “opensearch”

I've pushed an initial release of XML::Atom::Ext::OpenSearch to CPAN. It's a pretty simple add-on to XML::Atom that will lead you read and write OpenSearch enabled Atom feeds. This module has been in the works for nearly a year. I've been working with jshirley and miyagawa and with the release of XML::Atom 0.28, all of the bugs seem to be ironed out.

In the distribution, I've included a Changes file which is YAML-compatible. NB: I've also copied the file to Changes.yml as one cannot expect every Changes file to be YAML. For the purpose of discussion, here it is inline:

# Revision history for Perl extension XML::Atom::Ext::OpenSearch.

0.01:
  date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:39:38 -0400
  maintainer: Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>
  urgency: low
  changes:
    - original version

I've basically pilfered the ideas from the debian changelog specs. It's simple enough that it could be hand-generated, but at the same time parts could be auto-generated. Comments?

The last development release of WWW::OpenSearch was nearly 3 months ago. It was a development release due to some changes that weren't backwards compatible -- mostly having to do with how OpenSearch URLs were parsed and used in a request, adding a dependency on URI::Template.

During that time I haven't had any complaints, so I figure that must mean it's okay!

0.11 should hit a mirror near you soon.