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author Guido Berhoerster <guido+relmon@berhoerster.name>
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1 relmon
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2 ======
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4 Description
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5 -----------
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7 relmon is a utility for monitoring websites of software projects for new
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8 releases. It crawls websites efficiently via HTTP or HTTPS using a configurable
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9 number of simultaneous connections and can parse HTML and XHTML documents as
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10 well as RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds. Software releases are detected by extracting
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11 the version numbers of links to distribution files from the parsed documents or
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12 feeds. In addition to the version numbers, the history of releases consisting
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13 of the times new release were initially discovered, any encountered errors and
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14 the time this information was last updated are recorded.
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16 The recorded information on each software project can be output in several
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17 different formats, including formatted text, machine-parseable text, and HTML,
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18 optionally with the history of releases in Atom feed fromat.
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20 Requirements
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21 ------------
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23 relmon requires GNU make, GNU or BSD install, the xsltproc tool from libxml2,
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24 Tcl 8.5 or later, tcllib, tls, and tdom. It has been tested on Linux
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25 distributions and FreeBSD.
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27 License
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28 -------
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30 Except otherwise noted, all files are Copyright (C) 2014 Guido Berhoerster and
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31 distributed under the following license terms:
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33 Copyright (C) 2014 Guido Berhoerster <guido+relmon@berhoerster.name>
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35 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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36 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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37 "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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38 without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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39 distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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40 permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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41 the following conditions:
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43 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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44 in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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46 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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47 EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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48 MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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49 IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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50 CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
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51 TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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52 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.