Yeah I was asking this question on SO - How to responsibly publish a script - but got no response, a sarcastic "Tumbleweed" badge even. My concern was that the

Yeah I was asking this question on SO - How to responsibly publish a script - but got no response, a sarcastic "Tumbleweed" badge even. My concern was that the script could be easily hosted elsewhere and we'd have multiple versions with potential malicious mods flying around. In the absence of alternatives curl-bashing isn't so bad after all because it promotes a canonical download location from a domain/site you control, even if I hated it initially as a long-term Unix user.