And I am doing it for real:
PyPi page for easy_install
Working installer! (Not quite working for windows, though)
Most known bugs fixed (at least 15 today)
It has been a nice experiment, and I will try to write something coherent tomorrow about lessons learned and such as we reach my self-imposed two week deadline for Akregator feature parity.
Last post for the day, and probably until monday.
Finished expiration implementation (and it works just fine)
Fixed a tough bug and now the background fetcher updates the UI correctly
Made the template location code work correctly before and after installation (thanks to help from PyAr mailing list)
And the pretty one: custom CSS file used for all templates. The default webkit (and khtml, and firefox) CSS is horrid. This one is just not pretty, but still an improvement.
And of course, a screenshot. Akregator on the left, uRSSus on the right:
So you need to install SQLAlchemy 0.4.6 and Elixir 0.5.2 and python and pyqt and paver, and whatever manually right now... it does work.
I had to change about 10 lines, specifically stuff about temporary files.
On Linux, I create a NamedTemporaryFile, write to it, then read it from another place of the code. As long as I keep a handle to the object that's ok.
On Windows, it seems I can't read the file because it's locked by the writer, but if I close it it's deleted, so I switchedto mkstemp and that's it.
Also, it doesn't run well from inside IDLE for some reason.
My stated goal of Akregator feature parity is looking even better. With screenshot!
If you didn't read (or care about) last night's updates to yesterday's post, here they are:
Implemented "Mark posts as read on arrival for this feed"
Implemented customupdate intervals for feeds
Fixed article filtering
Implemented filtering by article status
Implemented folder-as-feed (not perfect)
Export as OPML
And today I did these:
Switched from Mako to Tenjin (which I can just bundle)
Implemented "Combined View" mode (you can see it in the screenshot above)
Implemented "Import Technorati top 10"
Organized the code correctly
Wrote a Paver script so it can be installed nicely (someday)
Removed all generated files from the repo (now you generate them using paver and/or setup.py)
So, on the TODO we have:
Favicons
Implement app preferences dialog
Bugfixes
Pagination for combinedView (so you don't have a page with 90000 posts in it which takes a month to load)
Akregator DB import script, so I can compare performances reasonably.
And still fun!
Current LOC count: 1295
I intend to keep working like this for a couple of weeks, and see how far I can get in feature parity to akregator.
No, I don't expect to reach feature parity, I only want to strive for it. SInce I lack the focusand/or energy for a multi year commitment it requires to write the average free software, I want to see how far a sprint gets me.
To my surprise, only 9 days into the project, feature parity is at hand.
What's not done?
Some feed properties (custom archiving modes, mark as read on arrival)
Fix article filtering (it's not quite broken, but interacts badly with many things)
Implement app preferences dialog
Filtering by article status
Folder-as-feed
Export as OPML
Favicons
And some things in the backend, which are not proper features.
What have I done today?
New articles notification via systray
Custom update intervals per-feed
Made Feed.unreadCount() fast enough
Fixed a lot of bugs (none of which crashed uRSSus, take that Akregator! ;-)
And still I have written only 1066 lines of code, according to sloccount.