Open Source Rules
Just to follow up on my earlier debacle/discovery with PostCommitWebHooks, an Italian PHP coder seems to have picked up the script I posted to the Google thread and added to it considerably!
The script I wrote listens for updates from Google’s server and maintains a record of those updates. This coder’s script takes those updates and gets the actual changed files and maintains a local copy.
I can already think of a nice way to extend his update: write a script that presents that local cache of files as a single ZIP you can download. I suppose the reason they don’t offer that is because they want you to connect over SVN. But I think a lot of people might want to use the code but don’t want to bother checking it out, at least at first.
Anyway, moral of the story: open source is great.
