Michael, This may be over-kill, but something that may be of interest for organizing collections of objects is how the Zope community provides their so-called Products. Products in Zope are similar in some ways to scripts in GRASS. Check out http://www.zope.org/Products/. Zope is a content management system, which is pretty easy to setup and provides granular security levels and Zope also supports a review/publish workflow. So authors could obtain an account on Zope, submit their scripts, and the scripts would not be published until a site manager approves them. Zope can run behind Apache.
Just a Thought...
Craig
On 1-Jun-04, at 2:52 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
I am starting this on a trial basis this summer because I don't yet know
how much work this will be to maintain. A major issue is that Arizona
State no longer permits standard ftp connections (only sftp), so I can't
create an anonymous ftp downloads directory for the scripts. This means
that I have to list them all individually in a html page. This isn't a
lot of work, but it does add to the maintenance--especially given that
the lack of standard ftp connections means that I have to manually
upload all web material via sftp instead of using my web authoring and
site maintenance program. However, I *think* that now that I have the
basic format set up, it shouldn't be too difficult to keep up with
adding new scripts.