On 6/18/07, Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com> wrote:

> I'm all for pushing PHP5, but I'm not sure I want to take such an
> extreme stance.  As I mentioned in my blog post, let's start by
> making some features PHP5 only.  Like, let's rewrite the aggregator
> module with PHP5's simplified XML parser API.  That's disruptive too,
> but at least we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot, rather than

Dries *was* just using that as an example....but you're right, it's probably about time to bang the drum about this...again.

I'm against this, personally - I'd much rather see us standardize around
an external library like SimplePie. RSS and Atom parsers are a very very
complicated thing, and our parsing issue queue is quite indicative of
that. I'd much rather use a library that is /dedicated/ to that task
then the parser we currently have.

+1. And lo, the discussion from many years continues.

What if, instead of rewriting aggregator, we simply shove it out of core
(ala archive.module) and recommend people use something like Feed Parser
or SimpleFeed, both of which use and require SimplePie, both require a
healthy dose of loving, and both offer a much stronger API?

Neither one of those modules is a suitable replacement for aggregator in core (both do feeds-as-nodes and feed-items-as-nodes ... which is great / necessary for some use cases, but bad for others).

See http://groups.drupal.org/node/4624 --> Aggregation API as a GSOC project.