sirofront.pl, a Perl/GTK+ frontend for sirobot.pl Copyright (C) 1999 Roel Vanhout (roel_v@gmx.net)
From the README of Sirobot.pl:
"Sirobot is a web fetch tool. It's implemented in Perl 5 and runs from a
command line.
Sirobot takes URLs as arguments and is able to download them as well as
all given images and links in those html files recursively, too.
The main advantage over other tools like GNU wget is the ability to
fetch several files concurrently which effectively speeds up your
download."
OK, that's nice. But, wouldn't it be even nicer if we had a GTK frontend for it, so you don't have that mess with those parameters every time again? Yes, that's what I thought too. So I wrote that frontend.
I started this thing in C, I even released a pre-alpha version of it (under
the name sirofront), but I came to the conclusion that my C skills are way
too limited to write a serious program. So I started again, this time in
Perl, using the Perl/Gtk bindings, and I found it to be easier then C.
But, as this this is my first GTK program (and my first serious Perl program,
as well), I'm quite sure this isn't perfect software. So I'd appecriate all
feedback on it, about features missing, my bad coding style, my English
spelling, whatever.
You can reach me at roel_v@gmx.net.
It is made with and tested on Gtk+ 1.2.7 and Perl/Gtk 0.5121, so all versions higher then that should work. Let me know if it doesn't.
That's about it. Take good care of yourself... and eachother. Goodnight.