Jararaca is an open source html album generator that was designed to be a tool that can be remotely executed without requiring graphical interfaces. It was written is Perl language, and it is possible that it runs in any operating system with a Perl interpreter instaled.
The basic idea is that you can upload your images to a server, login there (by ssh or telnet) and runs Jararaca. Jararaca aims to be flexible, and it (will) provides full support for different styles through the use of html templates.
Ahhhh, Jararaca is also a serpent that is very common in some regions of Brasil.
This is a good question. Lets start from the beggining.....
A long time ago, I started putting my personal pictures on the web to my friends. When creating the first album I noted that it was a hard task. But the web is good tool to look for solutions. With some patience I found a bash script called photogen. It was very good, but it was interactive and I customised it to my needs.
I was happy with that, but it was not enough. The fact is that the script was not flexible enough. I tryed other tools, but I did not like anyone. Then, one day I started building my own html albuns generator. And after some ours of work it was ready.
Note that ready means that Jararaca does what I need at the moment. I think that one day, and with some help of the open source community, Jararaca will be a great tool.
