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nazuke / SEOMacroscope

SEO Macroscope is a website scanning tool, to check your website for broken links; including some technical SEO functionality, site scraping, Excel reporting, and more.
https://nazuke.github.io/SEOMacroscope/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Linux / MacOS versions? #35

Open LeBaux opened 5 years ago

LeBaux commented 5 years ago

Hey, I am currently on Linux, do you have any plans to make SEOMacrosope platform independent? Or is it tied up with Windows tightly?

I understand Microsoft is the major platform here, I am not really asking you to build for Linux now. This question would pop-up sooner or later, so I am just snooping if there are future plans.

Speaking of the future, are you planning onto making this paid product eventually? Thanks!

nazuke commented 5 years ago

Hi @LeBaux, apologies for the delay in response, very busy the last few months.

First of all, thank you for your interest in this project, as this is the first Windows application that I've written, and mostly for my own purposes, I did not aim for portability.

However, the project itself may run on Linux. I've had it built and technically running a few times; but it's far from clean. I don't actually have a proper Linux environment to test on right now.

I learnt a lot from this project, and as I said, it was mostly for my own work. I made it available publicly in the event that it may be useful to others.

Going forwards, I have no plans to release this as a paid-for (i.e. supported) product; mostly due to time constraints.

I would be directly competing against the other popular products in this niche ;-)

I wrote this application, because there are a few things (like the HrefLang matrix) that the current offerings didn't do in quite the way that I needed for some projects. It's nice to be able to tailor things to work just the way we want.

There are also things that I would do differently, such as storing crawled data on disk, instead of simply holding it in RAM. That would take a lot of work to implement as things are now, but I may eventually do a complete rewrite, using what I learnt from this round.

I do have one or two other projects on the back burner that are "crawler-based", so I will likely use what I learn there on any future version of SEO Macroscope.

Many thanks,

Jason

LeBaux commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the detailed response, much appreciated!