Re: [syndication] Re: ANN: RSS 'ping' interface at fyuze.com

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> see, this where i am continually confused/aggrevated/dumbfounded.

Welcome to the club.

> is five lines of code really too much to ask?

Five lines? How about in all the other languages known to be used for RSS?
Python, Ruby, ASP, C#, PHP, Java, VB, C, UserTalk, etc. Distributed to the
existing userbase how?  That's the real problem for changes to the APIs of
things like this.

> now, in other areas, there is a need for a common API. all the
> blogging platforms could use a more-robust, vendor-neutral, easily
> expandable, API as their overlap in functionality is great. but
> that's a discussion for another list on another day.

And why not have the discussion here for this?  The other group, weblog-devel
seems to have died:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weblog-devel

> * i am not trying to indicate that the weblogs.com API is "bad,"

No it was just one that was yet another API created without giving consideration
to existing works or discussions.

If you're going to suggest that all the various tools out there (that are likely
to generate a ping message of this sort) implement this change then it's worth a
little extra effort to make it *reasonably* extensible.   Otherwise it's yet
another API that's missing an important feature.

-Bill Kearney