Sharing a program I wrote

[Ed Keith]

--- On Tue, 5/4/10, Scott <scott.freemire at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Scott <scott.freemire at gmail.com>
> Subject: Sharing a program I wrote
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 5:40 PM
> I'm looking for suggestions on what
> to do (and how to do it) if I want
> to share a program that I wrote in Python. There seem to be
> quite a
> few places to post code and I don't know how to choose.
> 
> I wrote a program (script?) that takes a text file
> containing the
> output of  the "show access-list" command on a Cisco
> PIX/ASA/FWSM
> firewall and any number of text files containing syslog
> output from
> the same firewall and creates a report showing which
> access-list rules
> allowed which actual connections. It is written in Python
> 2.6 and runs
> on Windows.
> 
> Since this is obviously something mankind has long been
> waiting for I
> am thinking about sharing it - but since I am new to Python
> and
> programming in general I am not at all familiar with
> dealing with
> source code.
> 
> I'm sure that improvements and additions could be made if
> it was
> reviewed by "actual programmers" but I wouldn't exactly
> call it a
> "project" either. Of course I'd love to add a gui
> interface...
> 
> I've seen pypi. It seems to index code that is posted on
> all sorts of
> sites - including pypi itself? And what is a "package"
> anyway? I've
> seen sourceforge. It looks like a good home for big
> applications or
> multi-developer projects. Freshmeat? Google code? My own
> website? Your
> blog?
> 
> Another detail is that my program uses a library that was
> written by
> someone else. It is the most excellent netaddr written by
> David P. D.
> Moss and it lives at code.google.com. It uses the New BSD
> License.
> Since this library is required would I simply provide a
> link to it?
> Would I post the actual library? Do I have to post a copy
> of his
> copyright info anywhere? Please don't tell me I have to
> write some
> kind of installer that takes care of providing that.
> 
> I really just want anyone who might need a little
> networking/security
> tool like this to be able to find it. Any advice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
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> 


It depends on exactly what you want to do. I'd suggest you look at the following sites:

    http://developer.berlios.de/
    http://codepad.org/
    http://pastebin.com/
    http://ideone.com/

One of them might be what your looking for.

    -EdK

Ed Keith
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Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com