Re: ANN: RSS 'ping' interface at fyuze.com

["jdklub" <pseudonym@mindspring.com>]

> > 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.

i get your point, but my point was more along the line of "if you've 
already implemented XML-RPC in your language of choice, it's 
(typically) not too terribly difficult to add another call"

> And why not have the discussion here for this?  The other group, 
> weblog-devel
> seems to have died:
> 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.

when i went about implementing the ping feature, i had to decide 
whether or not to make the API fyuze-specific or attempt to use an 
application neutral API (of which there are currently none). the 
original draft of wasabii [1] has a "cloud" element to facilitate 
pinging and requests to be pinged. i didn't use it because wasabii 
is not finalized, and i thought that it would only add to the 
confusion at this point. i'd like to see wasabii continue to 
progress. is there still interest in such a thing?  

[1] http://wasabii.org (web application standard API for bi-
directional information interchange)