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Add NEWS file
author Guido Berhoerster <guido+relmon@berhoerster.name>
date Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:05:34 +0100
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relmon
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Description
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relmon is a utility for monitoring websites of software projects for new
releases. It crawls websites efficiently via HTTP or HTTPS using a configurable
number of simultaneous connections and can parse HTML and XHTML documents as
well as RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds. Software releases are detected by extracting
the version numbers of links to distribution files from the parsed documents or
feeds. In addition to the version numbers, the history of releases consisting
of the times new release were initially discovered, any encountered errors and
the time this information was last updated are recorded.

The recorded information on each software project can be output in several
different formats, including formatted text, machine-parseable text, and HTML,
optionally with the history of releases in Atom feed fromat.

Requirements
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relmon requires GNU make, GNU or BSD install, the xsltproc tool from libxml2,
Tcl 8.5 or later, tcllib, tls, and tdom. It has been tested on Linux
distributions and FreeBSD.

License
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Except otherwise noted, all files are Copyright (C) 2014 Guido Berhoerster and
distributed under the following license terms:

Copyright (C) 2014 Guido Berhoerster <guido+relmon@berhoerster.name>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.