Crossbow
About Crossow
Crossbow is a minimalist Atom/RSS feed reader for Unix environments.
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Motivation
There's plenty of feed readers out there. Crossbow strives to be a high quality tool by:
Being minimalist, the Unix way:
The program should do one thing, that is handle feeds. It should not be implemented as a daemon just for sake of periodicity: this is what
cron(8)is for. It should not try to render content either, but it should be able to invoke specialized programs. It should have a minimal set of run-time dependencies.Providing an excellent offline documentation:
A curated collection of Unix manpages covers every aspect of the program.
Being portable:
Crossbow is written in C, portable across different flavours of Unix. It uses GNU Autotools, minimizing the amount of tools required to build the dist package.
Being useful:
Besides HTTP/HTTPS, the feeds can be obtained via Gopher. Future versions might support Gemini and/or other protocols.