Yeah, I never expected that, but it should be now proven: the site map generator tool works in Linux with Wine. Few days ago the owner of www.wine-reviews.net posted a long and informative step-by-step guide on how he managed to start Sitemap Generator on linux. The full story is here: http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/applications/wonderwebware-sitemap-generator-on-linux-with-wine.html

(Just, please, remember that I have no idea why the tool works under Wine and I just cannot give you any warranty on this — the tool was never planned for such usage and my only “official” version is for Windows.)

Yes, the new revision of  Site Map Generator 0.97  is now available for download. What’s new:

• Now you can set additional attributes for the xml site map (last modified date, refresh rate, page importance)
• You can now send the program to the windows tray instead of keeping it all the time on the desctop (I suppose this is more important for XP users than 7, but however, it is here as an option)
• Some new settings added for better control over the crawling process (will describe the changes in the help pages soon)
• the usual code improvements and bugfixes (remember: sitemap generator is still <beta>…)

I think the tool becomes better with each new version. Something is still missing — the ability to work with large sites, so be warned that the maximal potential size of site that you can crawl currently is something like 50,000 pages (depends on your computer’s resources). In fact, there is no adequate reason to push the generator over this number, because it is still not capable to split site maps (and the maximal size of one sitemap file for google, as I remember, is 50K pages)… So, that’s the limitation that still persists…

All Sitemap Generator users: please, download the new version (0.96) as soon as possible — this is just a bug-fix release but will give better and more-compatible site maps…Sitemap Generator 0.96