X-Git-Url: http://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?p=dead%2Fhtsn.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=htsn.cabal;h=74a789f5856ed9c2d37cd38b49b56cb22b330ee9;hp=8aa384ff1de925b0b61d3a36b0c760de69c42cf1;hb=fdd40277556133bd14cf0a3f13749f4663b5f3ba;hpb=30b1c10038c463af3b1fcbc13fca39a688c9f4d0 diff --git a/htsn.cabal b/htsn.cabal index 8aa384f..74a789f 100644 --- a/htsn.cabal +++ b/htsn.cabal @@ -12,7 +12,25 @@ extra-source-files: synopsis: Parse XML files from The Sports Network feed. description: - Parse XML files from The Sports Network feed. + The Sports Network offers an XML feed + containing various sports news and statistics. The goal of /htsn/ + is to watch the XML feed and parse the individual XML documents into + files. + . + Once started, we will choose an XML feed host to connect to. The + choice is made from a list in a round-robin fashion, and by default, + the list contains all known TSN feed hosts. Once we have a connection, + your username and password are sent. If they are accepted, we begin to + parse the feed saving all XML files to the configured output directory. + . + If we encounter an error (say, the connection is dropped), then we + will attempt to connect to the next host in the list after waiting + five seconds. This process continues indefinitely. + . + The program can run either interactively (that is, outputting to the + console), or as a daemon. + . + /Full documentation can be found in the included man page./ executable htsn build-depends: @@ -22,6 +40,7 @@ executable htsn configurator == 0.2.*, directory == 1.2.*, filepath == 1.3.*, + hdaemonize == 0.4.*, hslogger == 1.2.*, hxt == 9.3.*, MissingH == 1.2.*, @@ -72,6 +91,7 @@ test-suite testsuite configurator == 0.2.*, directory == 1.2.*, filepath == 1.3.*, + hdaemonize == 0.4.*, hslogger == 1.2.*, hxt == 9.3.*, MissingH == 1.2.*,