raisin:about
Last edited by rjmb 1103 days ago.
raisin is a tool i've developed to manage my media uploads. when i initially set out to write it, i created a list of goals that i wanted to achieve with it.

those goals were:

  • facilitate uploading media
  • facilitate redirecting long URLs
  • facilitate uploading collections of files into browseable directories
  • facilitate creating collections through tags placed on media or URLs
  • facilitate limiting access to media, either by number of uses, a specific referrer or IP, or an expiration date
  • have no system dependancies other than a unix webserver with cgi capability and the Python interpreter
  • be relatively painless to install and use

    so that's pretty much what raisin does now. it's like a personal url-shortener and an image storage-site combined with access controls.

    a commandline client? what is this, DOS?

    since i pretty much wrote this thing for myself and my own needs, i only really needed a CLI client to handle the various tasks. writing gui software is a pain, and i have too little time already. sorry!

    how do i use this as a back-end for my file-sharing site?

    you shouldn't. use it as a base, maybe, but you're going to need to use something more efficient for keeping track of files. it certainly can't efficiently handle a massive media bank (since it has no database back-end).. but that's not what raisin is for. it's for you and the media you want to share with friends or the public at large.

    what is with the chompy icon on the windows client?

    bite bite!