2 News

checkurl is part of the checkurls distribution.

• Changes in checkurls 0.5.2 of the 11th of April 2005
  • Fixes.

    Fixed bug in URL specific options support for URLs containing the “&” character.

    Fixed bug that prevented to pass multiples options to --wget-flags (and alike) from checkurls (for example using --checkurl-flags).

    Other fixes.

• Changes in checkurls 0.5.1 of the 24th of February 2004
  • Fixes.

    Fixed bug (the --min-lines and the --max-lines long options where not accepting arguments).

• Changes in checkurls 0.5.0 of the 5th of February 2004
  • Now the flag options are reversible, repeting them.

    For example, -H -H is equivalent to not giving the -H flag. This is useful for setting a common default in the CUS_CONF_FILE (using CHECKURL_FLAGS) and then refining the options for each URL using CUS_URL_SPEC_OPTS.

  • Now m4 is not needed for building checkurls.
  • Now the html2text program can be configured at runtime.
  • Now recipients can be configured from the command line.
  • Now checkurls configuration files can be selected from the command line.
• Changes in checkurls 0.4.1 of the 23th of April 2003
  • Backported bug fixes from 0.5.0-alpha1.

    The bug in the superfluous files removing code was fixed.

    Some m4 test file needed by configure.ac were missing from the distribution.

• Changes in checkurls 0.4.0 of the 9th of April 2003
  • Added URL specific options support

    Now you can configure checkurls to give URL specific options to checkurl. This can be useful to remove the noise of counters (setting to an appropriate value the --min-lines (-m) option) and to view the various pages as you want (for example you may want to set the --additions (-a) options for news sites, but not for other sites).

  • Select sending or not diffs considering the length.

    Now you can set the minimun and/or the maximum number of lines the diff must be long to be sent.

  • Improved verbosity.

    Now --verbose gives more informations on what's happening.

  • Now grep is required.

    Now grep is required, it is used for filtering.

  • Now removes unused files.

    Now the program removes no more useful files before exiting.

  • Added additions and subtractions filtering support.

    Added options to filter out all but additions, all but subtractions, only additions, only subtractions.

  • Now lynx is required.

    Now lynx is required, so html to text converting is always supported.

  • Now getopt is required.

    Now the getopt program is required, so command line options are always supported.

  • Fixes.
• Changes in checkurls 0.3.0 of the 2nd of January 2003
  • Added converting to plain text support.

    Now checkurls can convert its (mail) output from HTML to plain text.

  • Corrected configurations priorities.

    Now command line options overwrites the environment settings (as in the past versions) and the configuration file settings too (from this version).

    Configuration file settings overwrites the environment settings as in the past versions.

• Changes in checkurls 0.2.0 of the 27th of December 2002
  • Improved portability.

    The checkurls scripts now are portable shell scripts, and are not specific to Bash.

  • Added environment variables support.

    Now you can configure the scripts using some environment variables.

  • Added configuration files support.

    Now you can use configuration files to configure the scripts.

  • Added command line options support.

    Now the scripts supports command line options.

  • Added error checking.

    Now the scripts do error checking too.

  • Added documentation.

    Now the scripts supports the options --help (-h) and --version (-v), there is an info manual and there are two manpages too.

  • Added Gnits compliant distribution files.

    Now the distribution is Gnits compliant and uses GNU autoconf and GNU automake.

  • Other fixes.

    The scripts in general are more stable.

• Changes in checkurls 0.1.0 of the 23th of September 2002
  • First release.