[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4547: Convert WP from magpie to Simplepie

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#4547: Convert WP from magpie to Simplepie
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 Reporter:  technosailor          |        Owner:  technosailor
     Type:  task                  |       Status:  new         
 Priority:  normal                |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk) 
Component:  General               |      Version:  2.3         
 Severity:  normal                |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  simplepie magpie rss  |  
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Comment (by technosailor):

 As far as I can tell, the only one opposing this is Matt. It seems a bit
 like tags in 2.2. Matt, I don't know if you're just playing devil's
 advocate but either way, you're outnumbered.

 My argument is much more philisophical. Otto makes a good case for the
 technical and practical side of the argument. However, from where I sit,
 feeds are becoming more about ubiquitous content. We don't know when,
 where, how or why content is being used and in what form it's being used.
 WP has done a good job of providing it's own content in a variety of
 formats. The reality is WP is also on the consuming side of content and we
 are bottlenecked right now. Plugin authors can't write plugins to do feed
 consummation effectively unless they bundle their own feed library and
 that on it's face is just silly when we already provide a library. Why
 should a plugin author have to bundle SimplePie when WP is offering
 Magpie? Quite simply, magpie sucks and by bundling both... well again,
 that's just silly.

 WP should be offering Simplepie because

 1) It's better than Magpie
 2) It makes it easier for plugin authors to write RSS-consuming plugins
 3) It meets the "Code is Poetry" mantra of WP by providing clean and
 simple functions to do all the stuff a library should do. Magpie is just
 fugly.
 4) Upgrading Simplepie is as clean as dropping an upgraded library into
 class-Simplepie.php. No fuss, no muss, no editing. Matt, why is upgrading
 hard?
 5) Provides WP a future-proofed method of consuming feeds in new and
 different ways not yet in this iteration of WP.
 6) Because feed consumption in a blogging software should not be relegated
 to "second rate" functionality or as additional pieces of flair. Feed
 consumption is _essential_ to blogging and blogging software. Let's stop
 rying to pretend it can be worked around.

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