I have written a fair number of little shell scripts for various reasons over the years. I have two domains that I'm not doing much with.
Out of the blue last night I thought about making some sort of page or system and making my scripts available for download/use. This could be a little bit difficult of a process but still doable.
Part of the problem is that I go long stretches without making new scripts or updating old ones (if I ever update them to begin with). So I can see it becoming or at least appearing very stagnate and/or out of date very quickly.
Then there is the question of usefulness. Is there a need for my scripts and tools to be used by others? Maybe....
Then we have the issue of me taking the time to build such a place. My php and html skills have gotten very rusty over the last few years.
Still thinking about it.
Posted by Ben at March 07, 2008 08:22 AMHi Ben,
I don't know if this is useful information or not but here are some free options for public storage of scripts. Of course they don't make use of your spare domains that are gathering dust but they take care of much of the php/html gruntwork.
1. github.com
This provides git hosting. It is currently free for beta and will always be free for open source. Registration is by invite but I can send you an invite if you like. I've tried it out and it seems pretty user friendly. As far as I can tell, you have to download an entire repository as a tarball or by doing a 'git clone' operation. Of course you get the added benefit of built in version control.
2. gitorious.org
Looks a lot like github.com. I have not tried it. It appears that no invite is required.
3. openomy.com
Provides free online hosting for up to 1GB of files. I use this and am happy with it. Uploads are simple and you can create URL's that point directly to the uploaded files.
- Dave
Posted by: Dave Compton on March 7, 2008 11:22 AM