Open Source Project Name Checker

#1

Post by LogIN- » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:08 PM UTC

Open Source Project Name Checker
github.com

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#2

Post by aDevilInMe » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:16 PM UTC

Yeah. An off by one error. If you input a string of three characters, then it complains that the input needs a name longer than two characters.

How about adding googlecode and bitbucket to the list of searched sites and providing links to the found projects at the searched sites?

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#3

Post by swanson » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:18 PM UTC

Like the idea, but I'm having trouble interpreting the output. I searched for "stringer" (the name of one of my open source projects) and I see "npmjs" "sourceforge" and "github" with a neutral smile-y face - what does that mean?

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#4

Post by rohitv » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:20 PM UTC

getting a 404 on http://ivantomic.com/projects/ospnc/

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#5

Post by stevekemp » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC

I wrote something similar a good few years ago, and still use it:

http://blog.steve.org.uk/i_want_to_be_remembered.html

These days it lives in the Debian "devscripts" package, and it is still useful, even if it only checks against sourceforge, freshmeat, etc. (I guess freshmeat is dead these days.)

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

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Post by LogIN- » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:43 PM UTC

swanson wrote: post #3

Like the idea, but I'm having trouble interpreting the output. I searched for "stringer" (the name of one of my open source projects) and I see "npmjs" "sourceforge" and "github" with a neutral smile-y face - what does that mean?

neutral smile should mean that name is already used by somebody else in this case i think that's you

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#7

Post by LogIN- » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC

aDevilInMe wrote: post #2

Yeah. An off by one error. If you input a string of three characters, then it complains that the input needs a name longer than two characters. How about adding googlecode and bitbucket to the list of searched sites and providing links to the found projects at the searched sites?

Yea i see!! cool idea i will implement it over the weekend

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#8

Post by LogIN- » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:45 PM UTC

rohitv wrote: post #4

getting a 404 on http://ivantomic.com/projects/ospnc/

you just came on nginx restart :P

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

#9

Post by jarofgreen » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:58 PM UTC

Cool idea. Is that really the only 3 places to check tho? npmjs, GitHub & sourceforge? Have to admit I did this just to see what places there where. How about packaging systems for other languages, like Composer for PHP, PyPI for Python? Or even OS's, like the Debian package repository?

Re: Open Source Project Name Checker

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Post by LogIN- » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

jarofgreen wrote: post #9

Cool idea. Is that really the only 3 places to check tho? npmjs, GitHub & sourceforge? Have to admit I did this just to see what places there where. How about packaging systems for other languages, like Composer for PHP, PyPI for Python? Or even OS's, like the Debian package repository?

Cool! Adding them right now to txt file, i will implement it today/tomorrow