> 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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