The demise of BeBits and Haikuware was something of a shock, and started me thinking of possible alternatives. I'm not sure the Repositary -- when it gets into full gear -- will be a complete replacement. Seems to me it will be a lot more "formal" that the websites were.
Anyway, BeShare is an alternative that's been around forever -- if people would only make use of it. I admit that I never used it much myself -- the websites were much more convenient for finding stuff -- but now could it become a useful community? An advantage is that there's no "single-point-of-failure", as there are usually several muscle servers around that one can connect to. [And my thesis is of course being tested because TyCom has been down since yesterday!]
One thing that inhibited my use a bit was that I'd log in, do a query, and be faced with a long list of files, many of which I'd have no idea what they were. It struck me that if there was some way to add informational tags to files, it would help a lot. So I've updated the code a bit to provide that facility. It also seemed a bit of a limitation that custom icons were not shown in the query list -- only those supplied by the mimetype -- so I've added that, too.
The updated version -- or versions... there's one for Haiku and one for BeOS -- are available at:
http://www.goodeveca.net/BeShare
and I'll also try to keep them available a lot of the time on BeShare itself -- TyCom if it's running, one of the others if not.
I've bumped the version to "3.00", not because I think it's a startling advance, but because there are already others' Haiku-only versions 2.30 et seq...
