Sourceforge Annoyance

[Mr. Analog]

So, I've been looking for something to generate a nice clean static web gallery (with sub directory support, dammit) and I thought a good place to start would be SourceForge (heck, I find a lot of goodies there usually) but all I found was a whole bunch of dead projects with "limited" documentation.

As a user the three most important pieces of documentation you can provide are the following:
-Requirements
-Installation
-Operation

Out of the 20 or so projects I went to not one of them included all three in their documentation area.

I mean, I can figure out what it does and how to install it by sometimes just looking at the install (after I've downloaded it) or by poking at the source but I shouldn't have to. I have a real need for an organized way of quickly deploying a static gallery that doesn't look like vomit.

The worst part is that I could probably write my own gallery generator that supports templates in Java in a few weeks and show all these pissers how to do it right but I just don't have the time. :angry:

[Tom]

Most projects don't even bother using most of Sourceforge's features, its such a pain in the rear, and the design never gets any better no matter how many times they redo the interface. Its better to look at the projects actual website and see what they have there.

[onceawhile]

you can try simple viewer

though you might have a problem with directories as it depends on the HTML containing it.
there is this solution (bottom), but I never tried it.

a nice free tool

[Mr. Analog]

Hmm, I'm not sure I want to go Flash for this, the host is fairly high volume traffic and very little bandwidth, I'd have to experiment I guess.

Thanks though! I will be using this for at least one project I think.