<html> <head> <title>p4rss</title> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed about p4rss development hosted at Perforce public depot"> </head> <body> <h3>Name</h3> p4rss.py - generate RSS feed from <code>p4 changes -m 10</code>. <h3>Synopsis</h3> <code>python p4rss.py > /path/to/rssfile.xml</code><br/> p4rss.py generates 10 most recent changes from <code>//depot/...</code> or the top of the depot. Users can specify their customizations by editing p4rss.ini file. <dl> <dt>title<dd>name of RSS feed - useful for html rendering <dt>filespec<dd>argument for p4 <dt>maxchanges<dd>value for -m option of p4 <dt>site_url<dd>url of p4db <dt>maildomain<dd>if set, user info appears as email addresses </dl> <h3>Description</h3> p4rss.py converts usual output from p4 changes e.g. <pre> Change 10 on 2003/02/26 by hjh@p4rss 'Doc on RSS 0.91 vs 1.0, and cos' Change 9 on 2003/02/26 by hjh@p4rss 'Add a bit more doc. ' Change 8 on 2003/02/26 by hjh@p4rss 'Documentation and cosmetic chan' ... </pre> to RSS 2.0 format. Run p4rss from a cron job to generate the RSS periodically. <p> Because p4rss.py uses vanilla p4, user can modify its behaviour with usual P4 environment variables. <h3>Bugs</h3> There is no support for caching and other advanced features. <h3>Todo</h3> Study web interfaces like p4db, p4web or <a href="http://pyds.muensterland.org/">PyDS</a> <h3>Download</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://public.perforce.com/cgi-bin/p4db/fileSearch.cgi?FSPC=%2F%2Fguest%2Fjay_han%2Fp4rss%2F...">p4rss via p4db</a></li> <li>via p4 directly: //guest/jay_han/p4rss</li> </ul> <hr/> Copyright 2003 <a href="mailto:jhan@acm.org">Jay Han</a><br/> You are free to use it as long as you do not blame me for anything. </body>
| # | Change | User | Description | Committed | |
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| #10 | 3358 | Jay Han | added email option and updated release.bat | ||
| #9 | 2858 | Jay Han | put <link> element to help auto discovery of RSS | ||
| #8 | 2835 | Jay Han | update to mention optional file argument and default one //... | ||
| #7 | 2830 | Jay Han | typo cleanup | ||
| #6 | 2827 | Jay Han | RSS for p4rss = http://radio.weblogs.com/0107481/p4rss.xml | ||
| #5 | 2814 | Jay Han |
p4rss.xml is the RSS feed for p4rss at public.perforce.com. Whenever I make a new release (by running release.bat), p4rss.xml should be posted to the website. |
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| #4 | 2812 | Jay Han | escape &, <, >, ", ' to HTML entities | ||
| #3 | 2798 | Jay Han | customization information (or some lame excuses...) | ||
| #2 | 2797 | Jay Han | rename index.html to p4rss.html | ||
| #1 | 2793 | Jay Han | rename index.html to p4rss.html and modify release.bat to reflect this change. | ||
| //guest/jay_han/p4rss/index.html | |||||
| #5 | 2789 | Jay Han | update mail link | ||
| #4 | 2788 | Jay Han | download from blog page, delete the often-regenerated sample.p4rss.xml | ||
| #3 | 2782 | Jay Han | description comes from p4 describe, not the truncated p4 changes output. | ||
| #2 | 2781 | Jay Han | pull out doc from p4rss.py, set url to public.perforce.com for now, also add a sample.p4rss.xml. | ||
| #1 | 2780 | Jay Han | index.html for p4rss.py (copied docstring + email) | ||