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Feed reader for macOS.

NetNewsWire

It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.

It’s not in beta yet. Not even alpha! While NetNewsWire 5.0 is feature-complete as of May 25, 2019, it has known bugs — and, surely, plenty of unknown bugs.

It supports RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RSS-in-JSON formats.

More info: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

Also see the Technotes and the Roadmap.

Note: NetNewsWire’s Help menu has a bunch of these links, so you don’t have to remember to come back to this page.

Community

Join the Slack group to talk with other NetNewsWire users — and to help out, if you’d like to, by testing, coding, writing, providing feedback, or just helping us think things through. Everybody is welcome and encouraged to join.

On accepting pull requests

It’s pretty early still, and we have strong opinions about how we want to do things, so we’re not seeking help just yet.

That said, we will seriously consider any pull requests we do get. Just note that we may not accept them, or we may accept them and do a bunch of revision.

It’s probably a good idea to let us know first what you’d like to do. The best place for that is definitely the Slack group.

We do plan to add more and more contributors over time. Totally. But we’re taking it slow as we learn how to manage an open source project.

Building

git clone https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire.git
cd NetNewsWire
git submodule update --init

You can locally override the Xcode settings for code signing by creating a DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file locally at the appropriate path. This allows for a pristine project with code signing set up with the appropriate developer ID and certificates, and for dev to be able to have local settings without needing to check in anything into source control.

As an example, make a ../../SharedXcodeSettings/DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file and give it the contents

CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = Mac Developer
DEVELOPMENT_TEAM = <Your Team ID>
CODE_SIGN_STYLE = Automatic
PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER =

Now you should be able to build without code signing errors and without modifying the NetNewsWire Xcode project.

Example:

If your NetNewsWire Xcode project file is at: /Users/Shared/git/NetNewsWire/NetNewsWire.xcodeproj

Create your DeveloperSettings.xcconfig file at /Users/Shared/git/SharedXcodeSettings/DeveloperSettings.xcconfig