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Hi,
I'm in the process of adding live news
to the eclipse welcome in the what's new section. I intend to use the eclipse.org
RSS as the source of the news. I would like to know whether it is safe
to assume that the URL to get the news and the format of the news will
remain the same for a reasonably long period of time (e.g. a year). What
I want to avoid is shipping eclipse and then something changes and the
news doesn't work because something changed on eclipse.org. Is it safe
to make these assumptions? For the format, as long as it's backward compatible
with RSS 2.0 it should be fine. The only things we'll be picking out of
the RSS are the item title and link.
Note that it will fail very gracefully
if it can't get the news for whatever reason, e.g. no network connection.
I just want to make sure the feature will still work down the road.
Thanks,
Curtis d'Entremont
Eclipse User Assistance
IBM Toronto Lab
Phone: (905) 413-5754
E-Mail: curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx
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