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.
