RE: press for cygwin

[Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: press for cygwin
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:56:18AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> >>Why not then just generate files named ".cgw" instead of ".tar.bz2",
> >>and let cygwin setup.exe know that?  Then WinZip will most 
> surely *not*
> >>be able to naturally open these files (neither now or in the future)
> >>and this whole discussion will be closed, as well as any 
> WinZip-related
> >>thread.
> >>
> >>Note that not all packages should use the new suffix; only essential
> >>ones (like cygwin itself) so that the burden on package developers
> >>would not be too bad: after all, once you've installed the 
> basic cygwin
> >>parts using setup.exe, I doubt you will go back to WinZip! :-)
> >
> >Somebody else mentioned this earlier -- and explained that Debian did
> >exactly that.  ".deb" files are just ar archives, but .deb 
> implies that
> >they obey some sort of internal format standard ("CYGWIN-PATCHES" ?
> >/etc/postinstall?  )
> >
> >I actually think this is a pretty good idea.
> 
> It does have merits except for the fact that you lose the ability to
> distinguish between a .gz and .bz2 compressed archive.  setup.exe
> determines the uncompression method from the name.  If it 
> sees .bz2 file
> it says "Bwhaha, this is a WinZip confuser archive.  I will uncompress
> this file with great vigor".  If it sees a .gz file." it thinks "Oh
> well.  I'll uncompress this but I'm not happy about it since 
> the file is
> recognizable to the evil GUI WinZip."
> 
> It's probably possible to add magic number detection to setup.exe to
> circumvent this but then, once again, we're moving into development
> areas that need more than just a good idea for anything to happen.
> 

John's ".cgw.gz"/".cgw.bz2" would solve that, or we can use ".cgw" for
gzipped and ".cg2" for bzip2ed (apologies for the horrendous neologism :-))

Regards,

	Bernard

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