[Framework-Team] PLIP 197 ready for review: feedparser as external dependency

[Wichert Akkerman]

How come this PLIP has not been reviewed yet? I think we agreed to
encourage people to submit PLIPs early so the framework team can start
earlier as well in order to reduce the workload?

Wichert.


Previously Maurits van Rees wrote:
> 
> The buildout is here:
> https://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/review/plip197-feedparser
> 
> Note that I will not be online the next few days, so be patient when
> you have questions.
> 
> I'll paste the README.txt below for convenience.
> 
> 
> PLIP 197: Add FeedParser as external requirement instead of shipping with it 
> ============================================================================
> 
> See http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/197
> 
> Basically the only thing that needs doing is:
> 
> - Remove portlets/feedparser.py from plone.app.portlets.
> 
> - Instead add FeedParser as requirement in setup.py.
> 
> This has been done on this branch (see src/plone.app.portlets in this
> buildout):
> 
>     https://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plone.app.portlets/branches/plip197-feedparser-as-external-egg
> 
> 
> One possible gotcha is that the *package* is called ``FeedParser`` and
> the *module* contained in that package is called ``feedparser``.
> ``easy_install`` can handle both spellings just fine.  But I once
> encountered problems when using the lowercased name in setup.py.  See
> http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7299 (which is where this plip
> originated).  I could not reproduce that later, but I say we call the
> dependency ``FeedFeeder`` and everything should work.
> 
> ``bin/test`` will run the plone.app.portlets tests.
> 
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
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