[wp-xmlrpc] Dropping in

[Joseph Scott]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Dougal Campbell wrote:

>> Having your input would be terrific!  Some of the historical "whys"
>> have been bit difficult to figure out.
>>
>
> Most of the time, the answer is probably, "because that's what  
> worked." ;)


Hehe.  I've discovered that at this point many WordPress clients have  
worked around some of the oddities in the API.


>> I've been trying to direct people who are developing clients that  
>> work
>> with WordPress XML-RPC to this list, with specific patches usually  
>> run
>> through Trac.  What ever time and input you have would truly be  
>> welcomed.
>
> Speaking of clients, are there *any* decent blog clients for Linux?
> Darned if I can find one.


I know there are some out there, or at least there have been in the  
past.  One of these days I'll get Ubuntu or something in a virtual  
machine and try them out.


> I need to make another go at installing Ecto under Wine. I had  
> problems
> before, but since then I discovered that I have better success
> installing apps from the the emulated DOS shell than trying to do it
> directly from linux with something like "wine fooinstaller.exe".
>
> When I was doing the initial development, I used to use Scott Andrew
> LePera's online XML-RPC test server for debugging:
>
>   http://www.scottandrew.com/xml-rpc/test-mirror.php
>
> (parent page here: http://www.scottandrew.com/xml-rpc/ )


Interesting, I've used a Mac app called XML-RPC Client that has  
similar functionality (http://www.ditchnet.org/xmlrpc/).  Matt  
suggested something like the AtomPub APE (http://www.tbray.org/ape/),  
which I think is a good way to go.  We would implement specific  
methods in the test, like metaWeblog.newPost, editPost, deletePost,  
getPost and make sure that the results look correct.  In general this  
could be generic enough that any system that implemented those  
methods would be able to use it, but we've extended some of those  
methods and created new ones that are specific to WordPress.

I haven't started writing this tool, but it is on my list because I  
think it will be a great thing to have going forward.

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Joseph Scott
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/