Web News Reader Changelog

• Version 1.00 [In progress, changelog as of 3 July 2010]
  • Graphical user interface based on PyQt in progress
  • Signals/slots used to prevent the GUI from freezing as time-consuming blocking network operations occur
  • You can only add one URL at a time
  • You cannot remove URLs (yet)
  • The database is 100% compatible with the command line version
• Version 0.6 [As of 0.60-rc3] [In progress as of 2 July 2010]
  • Add support for checking URLs with no Last-Modified date via Adler32 checksums (A major new feature, as it allows many more URLs to be checked now)
  • Better error handling
  • Refactor code. The code that runs each time the program starts is now in a run() method
• Version 0.5-beta (SVN Revision 7) [25 June 2010]
  • Add code to check URLs before they are added
  • Support multiple URL deletion in a single operation
  • Support multiple URL addition in a single operation
• Version 0.4-alpha (SVN Revision 3) [25 June 2010]
  • Complete re-write based on the original idea
  • Much better display
  • Centralised database holds URL list as well as the "last-checked" times
  • Much more user friendly than any older version
  • Usable command line interface based on the optparse module
• Version 0.3-alpha [24 June 2010]
  • Check if no last-modified date is mentioned in the HTTP Header
  • Better output formatting
• Version 0.2-alpha [23 June 2010]
  • Fix:File modes for files used for pickling changed to binary mode
  • Fix:Program no longer NEEDS a blank but existent cachefile
• Version 0.1-alpha [23 June 2010]
  • First public release
  • Rudimentary command line interface

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