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portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the
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FreeBSD ports tree, and potentially other software repositories.
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Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might
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initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful
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versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with.
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portscout spawns several child processes and does its version checking
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in parallel, while attempting to best-guess strange-looking version
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numbers, navigate around unhelpful sites and web servers, and contend
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with the CPU-heavy rapidly-expanding FreeBSD ports system.
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In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports
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and send reminder mails to interested parties.
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Regularly updated results can be found at:
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http://beta.inerd.com/portscout/
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WWW: http://www.inerd.com/software/portscout/
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