releasing version 0.39

[code/myrepos.git] / webcheckout

diff --git a/webcheckout b/webcheckout
index d94ad9736409769d443a00e3d0014030b19ff854..0c93eefcd8d10e41d9ba649438a353debe91f6b8 100755 (executable)
--- a/webcheckout
+++ b/webcheckout
@@ -47,6 +47,14 @@ may still be noisy however.)
 
 =back
 
+=head1 PREREQUISITES
+
+To use this program you will need lots of VCS programs installed,
+obviously. It also depends on the perl LWP and HTML::Parser modules.
+
+If the perl URI module is installed, webcheckout can heuristically guess
+what you mean by partial URLs, such as "kitenet.net/~joey"'
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Copyright 2009 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
@@ -111,6 +119,11 @@ sub getopts {
        $url=shift @ARGV;
        $destdir=shift @ARGV;
 
+       eval q{use URI::Heuristic};
+       if (! $@) {
+               $url=URI::Heuristic::uf_uristr($url);
+       }
+
        if ($noact) {
                $quiet=0;
        }