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Re: maybe-ITP: bsdiff
- From: "John Morrison" <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:37:29 -0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: maybe-ITP: bsdiff
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On Fri, January 27, 2006 4:13 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:21:44PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>>What do you (all) think about it?
>
> Many years ago, I wrote a perl script which queried ftp sites looking
> for new versions of packages. It required constant tinkering since the
> sites came and went and the directories on the sites were often renamed
> arbitrarily.
>
> Maybe just monitoring some site like freshmeat would be enough nowadays,
> though.
>
> cgf
Freshmeat do a number of RSS feeds see <http://freshmeat.net/backend/> for
the list.
Perhaps <http://rss.freshmeat.net/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix> would
be the best? Can perl consume RSS feeds?
J.