Re: watch nasty hack

[Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>]

Am Sonntag, den 06.12.2009, 18:01 +0100 schrieb Jaromír Mikeš:
> Hello mentors,
> 
> I having watch file like this:
> http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html jconvolver-(.*)\.tar\.bz2
> 
> to monitor jconvolver-0.8.4.tar.bz2 , but watch file monitoring
> jconvolver-reverbs.tar.bz2 as well and suggesting it as update.
> 
> If modify watch file like this:
> http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html jconvolver-(0.*)\.tar\.bz2
> 
> This hack is not probably the best solution in case of 1.0.0 release it will probably stop works.
> Anybody knows better solution?

You expect digits and dots in the version: jconvolver-([\d.]+)\.tar\.bz2.
This might of course miss release candidates. But you can add them later
if necessary. I suggest you read some manual about regular expressions
or pcrepattern(3).

Regards, Daniel