retitle 413124 ITP: netstiff -- powerful tool to check for web page updates thanks Hi again, > Finding a good and well sounding package name is complicated business. So it's done and "webdiff" is renamed to "netstiff". Well, it's a rather nonsense name without further meaning. Well-sounding? That's a matter of taste. Good? No, new users cannot divine by name, what the program is doing. But: it's unique and, at least, rhymes on webdiff. ;-) > I am not sure about what is the main focus of your package. At the first > glance it looks like a websec remake in Ruby. I would at least refer to > websec in the package description. websec is ... different, a bit ;-) It has other features, e.g. producing colored HTML output or sending mail. And when I started doing work on netstiff/webdiff, I didn't know that websec exists, of course. Otherwise, I think, I would never have begun writing netstiff. Now let's go: * Package name : netstiff Version : 20070322 Upstream Author : Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> * URL : http://pkqs.net/~sbeyer/tools/netstiff/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : powerful tool to check for web page updates netstiff (formerly known as webdiff) is a powerful and easy-to-use tool which checks for web page updates. Several test criteria can be used: diff, html, size, date, md5sum, regexp. Using the default command (`get'), it will fetch the needed data from the specified URIs and show you only those that changed or where the given regular expression matches. Using the `diff' command and diff criterion, netstiff will show you the changes in unified diff format, like "diff -u" does. If you use the html criterion, the `diff' command is able to filter HTML tags or to use an external tool, like "html2text" or "lynx -nolist -dump" to pretty-print the difference output. Netstiff also comes with a built-in interactive configuration tool. Regards, Stephan Beyer PS: I hope I've done it right. -- Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F
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