Add Blog roll #156

[voila]

A new section on the Community page to list Mirage's related blogs

[amirmc]

Ref #156

[avsm]

Thanks! I'd like to have the posts linked somewhere individually (e.g. like a Planet setup), but this requires Syndic support, so merging this until that's done.

[voila]

Has syndication support started ? I cannot find any related repository...

[avsm]

https://github.com/Cumulus/Syndic -- but needs to use cohttp

[amirmc]

And a planet-like implementation nearly done too.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/tree/syndic

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On 18 Aug 2014, at 00:14, Anil Madhavapeddy [email protected] wrote:

https://github.com/Cumulus/Syndic -- but needs to use cohttp

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[voila]

Syndic depends on Xmlm and Calendar. Are these dependencies OK for mirage-www ?

[samoht]

mirage-www already depends on xmlmx (via cow). Is calendar in pure ocaml?

[voila]

After cursory look, I would say yes, pure OCaml.

[samoht]

That's a good start. Then, if it's pure ocaml need to check that:

• it does not use out_channel and in_channel
• it does not use the Unix module
• it does not use Threads

After a quick look, it seems that calendar depends on unix but the dependency is easily removable (ie. just using Unix.gettimeofday and Unix.gmtime which are available in mirage (in the OS.Clock module). So yes, I think that syndic is the good way to go (module few patches to calendar).

[voila]

Cool, thanks.

[voila]

They also use Unix.localtime. Should this be added to mirage's Clock module ?

[avsm]

No, as it requires a timezone db. It's easier just to store the utc time and to render other timezones from within the application. The Clock module is very core to Mirage and needs to stay small.

On 21 Sep 2014, at 22:05, voila [email protected] wrote:

They also use Unix.localtime. Should this be added to mirage's Clock module ?

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[voila]

Ok, well, Syndic does not use that part of Calendar anyway.
By the way, is this the right place to ask questions about how to add syndication to mirage-www ?

[avsm]

Absolutely, or feel free to mail [email protected] if you want a wider audience (not everyone watches this repo).

On 22 Sep 2014, at 01:28, voila [email protected] wrote:

By the way, is this the right place to ask questions about how to add syndication to mirage-www ?

[voila]

Well, I was wrong Syndic makes use of code which relies on Unix.localtime()... kinda stumped now.

[Chris00]

I have removed the use of Unix in Syndic.