Freshmeat XML-RPC drop announcement

draegtun · Jul 19, 2009 · 900a17c · 900a17c
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@@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ Revision history for WWW-FreshMeat-API
     * First version, released on an unsuspecting world.
       - alpha version... but it does work!
       - turned into CPAN module from dirty prototypes (see initial git commits)
-
+
+0.02    Sun July 19, 2009
+    * Service announcement... Freshmeat have dropped the XML-RPC API
+      - Made annoucement changes to Readme & API.pm
diff --git a/META.yml b/META.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: WWW-FreshMeat-API
-version: 0.01
+version: 0.02
 author:
   - 'Barry Walsh <draegtun@cpan.org>'
 abstract: inspect & update your freshmeat.net projects
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ build_requires:
 provides:
   WWW::FreshMeat::API:
     file: lib/WWW/FreshMeat/API.pm
-    version: 0.01
+    version: 0.02
   WWW::FreshMeat::API::Agent::XML::RPC:
     file: lib/WWW/FreshMeat/API/Agent/XML/RPC.pm
     version: 0.01

diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -1,14 +1,34 @@
-WWW::FreshMeat::API version 0.01
+WWW::FreshMeat::API version 0.02
 
 This distribution includes the following modules:
 
-    WWW::FreshMeat::API                   (0.01)
+    WWW::FreshMeat::API                   (0.02)
     WWW::FreshMeat::API::Session          (0.01)
     WWW::FreshMeat::API::Pub              (0.01)
     WWW::FreshMeat::API::Pub::V1_03       (0.01)
     WWW::FreshMeat::API::Agent::XML::RPC  (0.01)
 
 
+** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT **
+
+Circa April 2009 Freshmeat relaunched their site and completely dropped the XML-RPC API :(
+
+In place is a new Freshmeat API 3.0 using REST JSON (or XML).
+
+Its not clear how stable this API is.    I'll look more closely at this in a few months 
+time and perform necessary surgery on this module.
+
+So note this module will not work in its present state until I make investigate the new API 
+& changes source code changes.
+
+Very sorry about this.
+
+BW 19-Jul-2009
+
+** END OF ANNOUCEMENT **
+
+
+
 DESCRIPTION
 
 FreshMeat (http://freshmeat.net) provides a very simple XML-RPC API which allows a user to inspect what projects

diff --git a/lib/WWW/FreshMeat/API.pm b/lib/WWW/FreshMeat/API.pm
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package WWW::FreshMeat::API;
 use Moose;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.01';
+our $VERSION = '0.02';
 
 has 'mock' => ( isa => 'Bool', is => 'ro', default => sub { 0 } );
 
@@ -23,11 +23,30 @@ WWW::FreshMeat::API - inspect & update your freshmeat.net projects
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-Version 0.01
+Version 0.02
 
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
+** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT **
+
+Circa April 2009 Freshmeat relaunched their site and completely dropped the XML-RPC API :(
+
+In place is a new Freshmeat API 3.0 using REST JSON (or XML).
+
+Its not clear how stable this API is.    I'll look more closely at this in a few months 
+time and perform necessary surgery on this module.
+
+So note this module will not work in its present state until I make investigate the new API 
+& changes source code changes.
+
+Very sorry about this.
+
+BW 19-Jul-2009
+
+** END OF ANNOUCEMENT **
+
+
     use WWW::FreshMeat::API;
     
     my $fm = WWW::FreshMeat::API->new;