[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4547: Convert WP from magpie to Simplepie

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#4547: Convert WP from magpie to Simplepie
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 Reporter:  technosailor          |        Owner:  technosailor
     Type:  defect                |       Status:  new         
 Priority:  normal                |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk) 
Component:  General               |      Version:  2.3         
 Severity:  normal                |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  simplepie magpie rss  |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 Definitely should be core. People want to read other sites RSS feeds.
 Whether they want to put them in the sidebar, or whether they want to put
 them in the main page, it's something that there are lots of requests for.
 The fetch_rss() page in the codex gets a lot of hits and a lot of
 questions about how to make it do different things on the support forums.

 Making this sort of thing into plugin territory means that every RSS
 plugin is going to include its own feed-reading stuff, making things
 difficult, heavier, more complex. Consider that we also have things like
 Prototype in the core code, both because it's used, but also because it
 prevents conflicts when several plugins all try to include it as well.

 Suggestion: Make the thing not loaded by default. This is currently the
 case with the rss.php, so there's no reason not to also make it the case
 for simplepie. Then you only get the weight of it when you actually use
 it.

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