@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ This is Github Growler: fetches GitHub timeline and growls as new activies are coming in. -This is a perl script that runs as a daemon. You need to install CPAN module dependencies by running `cpan -i`. See `man cpan` for details. +## Install + +There's a binary build for Mac OS X Leopard available at [Downloads](http://github.com/miyagawa/github-growler/downloads). + +If you're trying to run this on other platforms, just run `github-growler.pl`. You might need to install its CPAN module dependencies with `cpan -i . ` command. + +## Configurations You need to set `github.user` and `github.token` in your [global git config](http://github.com/guides/local-github-config) or pass them to the command line arguments. @@ -9,8 +15,6 @@ By default this scripts fetches the github updates every 300 seconds and display defaults write net.bulknews.GitHubGrowler interval 180 defaults write net.bulknews.GitHubGrowler maxGrowls 5 -It's in my TODO to make it a standalone app. I guess we could use [Platypus](http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus) and bundle all CPAN dependencies in its Resources folder by removing the non pure-perl module dependency (i.e. XML::LibXML). - ## Screenshots <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bulknews/3354348975/" title="Github Growler by miyagawa, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3354348975_85fc99bf65_o.jpg" width="326" height="542" alt="Github Growler" /></a> README.mkdn ba2b9d2065b1f16d1c1d4c1f048367214cfb28b8 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyagawa@bulknews.net http://github.com/miyagawa/github-growler/commit/e34e74550a915ca1c493162a7501b29163c4d6c3 e34e74550a915ca1c493162a7501b29163c4d6c3 2009-06-13T02:44:17-07:00 2009-06-13T02:44:17-07:00 update README 6f4d51eb44ffd3e7caab1691d2626e6b69f958d5 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyagawa@bulknews.net