[Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

[Duncan Murdoch]

Usually the duplication happens because there's a small change between 
the entries, e.g. a spelling correction.  Other times it's not 
duplication, but a substantive change to the NEWS entry, so those really 
should be duplicated.

I can't spot a change in the example you gave, so it's probably a change 
to the white space.  The comparison code tries to ignore those changes, 
but it doesn't always get it right.

Sometime I should put the code on Github so others can fix bugs like 
this.  It's currently in a private SVN repository (and has been since I 
wrote it about 16 years ago).

Duncan Murdoch

On 15/03/2024 12:04 p.m., Lluís Revilla wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for this service! It is very helpful to know what is being developed.
> 
> I distribute the content to other venues and I noticed some times that the
> updates are duplicated.
> For example, the sentence "‘is.R()’ is deprecated as no other S dialect is
> known to be in use (and this could only identify historical dialects, not
> future ones)." is duplicated in different days:
> Day 1:
> https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/07#n2024-03-07
> Day 2:
> https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2024/03/09#n2024-03-09
> 
> I tried to look up how to avoid duplications with Blosxom
> <http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/> but I didn't find a way.
> It would be great if this could be further improved to avoid this
> duplication.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Lluís
> 
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:50, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Years ago Duncan set up a nightly job to feed RSS based off changes to
>> NEWS,
>> borrowing some setup parts from CRANberries as for example the RSS
>> 'compiler'.
>>
>> That job is currently showing the new \I{...} curly protection in an
>> unfavourable light. Copying from the RSS reader I had pointed at this since
>> the start [1], for today I see (indented by four spaces)
>>
>>      CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on WINDOWS
>>
>>      The makefiles and installer scripts for Windows have been tailored to
>>      \IRtools44, an update of the \IRtools43 toolchain. It is based on GCC
>> 13
>>      and newer versions of \IMinGW-W64, \Ibinutils and libraries (targeting
>>      64-bit Intel CPUs). R-devel can no longer be built using \IRtools43
>>      without changes.
>>
>>      \IRtools44 has experimental suport for 64-bit ARM (aarch64) CPUs via
>> LLVM
>>      17 toolchain using lld, clang/flang-new and libc++.
>>
>> Can some kind soul put a filter over it to remove the \I ?
>>
>> Thanks,  Dirk
>>
>> [1] Feedly. Unless we set this up so early that I once used Google
>> Reader. It's been a while...
>>
>> --
>> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
>>
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