atom-tools 2.0

Published atom-tools 2.0 a few days ago.

The XML parsing and building has been completely reworked. This should make handling extensions much easier.

A big feature for people writing clients is HTTP caching support (ported from Joe Gregorio’s httplib2). I actually commited this to the darcs repository the same day I published 1.0 but never released a 1.1 version (oops!).

It’s got some new UNIX-y tools that I’ll write about later.

I’ve gotten rid of the YAML mapping entirely; it wasn’t as human-read/writeable as I had hoped. I think there’s promise in doing something with Maruku for that.

I’m slowly moving from Test::Unit to rspec (thanks to a lot of grunt work by Simon Rozet). I think the result is a lot cleaner.

I’ve tried to keep things as backwards-compatible as possible, but some things have changed since the 1.0 release. The main difference is that Atom::Collection now represents an app:collection element, instead of just being a fancy Atom::Feed.