Re: [BackupPC-users] Help uploading scripts to BackupPC media wiki

[Stephen J. <st...@ph...>]

It's not as nice as having a file attached to just click and download, but 
why not just include the script(s) on the page as long as they're just 1 or 
2 files?

See 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Distribute_Full_Backups 
for an example.

Cheers, Stephen
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Michael Stowe wrote:

>> Michael Stowe wrote at about 11:21:39 -0600 on Monday, November 9, 2009:
>> >> Not sure if I am missing something obvious here, but the BackupPC
>> >> Mediawiki page seems to only allow the upload of *media* files with
>> >> extensions like .jpegg, .png, etc.
>> >>
>> >> Even 'faking' the extension doesn't seem to work for me.
>> >> Note Craig has given me editing access so that is not the problem
>> >> unless there are different levels of access that would deny certain
>> >> types of uploads.
>> >
>> > It's not a permissions issue; by default, MediaWiki a) only accepts
>> > certain extensions, and b) rejects certain mime types.  So, short of
>> > reconfiguring MediaWiki, you'll have to link to somewhere else that the
>> > files are hosted.  (MediaWiki wasn't designed to host files, per se,
>> but
>> > it was designed so that files could be linked to.)
>>
>> OK... but shouldn't we be using a wiki service that allows posting of
>> more general files since we are dealing here with support or
>> extensions to BackupPC that typically is written in perl or bash (or
>> in my case also a one-liner cmd script)?
>>
>> I guess we could link to someplace else but that has two problems:
>> 1. There is no "natural" place to host such files and I don't even
>> know where I would put them.
>>
>> 2. It makes it hard to back-up the wiki, ensure consistency, do
>> version control, etc. if important scripts are stored in (random) 3rd
>> party links.
>>
>> I don't know anything about Wikis but I would have thought that such
>> functionality would be available for open source projects which often
>> by their nature have multiple code contributors and extensions that
>> are not part of the core tree.
>
> I believe what SourceForge expects (in the sense of "going with the
> grain," and generally accepted practices) is to actually set up a small
> SourceForge project, which then provides version control, download
> capabilities, and so forth.
>
> (Personally, this seems like a lot of overhead to me, so I just host my
> scripts on my own servers.)
>
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