Aron is starting to pull these apart and is doing some benchmarking and feature comparisons
http://groups.drupal.org/node/4519
http://groups.drupal.org/node/4547

I know he's putting some real time into this the next few weeks, and one idea is a pluggable parser - so you could have one for php4, one for php5, something using simpleXML, another using simplepie.  This is at least an idea, and I think he's going to iron them out still further on the group wiki.

Ian



On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Boris Mann wrote:



On 6/18/07, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:
>> Not entirely true - the Feed Parser module does have an "items as
>> aggregator.module" module, but it has fallen into disrepair. I plan to
>> fix that up for my own needs.
>>
> Urgh. Double Urgh. The Feed Parser stuck in 4.7 for which there are now
> better options :(  -- /me laments for the non-convergence of forces
> around aggregation.

Eh? I don't know what you're saying.

Projects:
* aggregator2 (abandoned)
* Aggregation
* Leech (sort of agg2, DevSeed are doing good work but  I think the foundation has always been flawed)
* Feedparser
* SimpleFeed

That would be what I mean by non-convergence.

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