From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:02:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.1.2.20001220105200.027665d0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <20001220154912.18117.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00939.html At 10:49 AM 12/20/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > Why not switch to the quite common ".tgz" suffix instead of .tar.gz" and > > replace dots in release numbers by underscores? this could be done almost > > unambiguously (at least as long as package names do not contain '-'): > > > >Yuck!! Not worth it. I'm not sure I understand this reaction. To be honest, I think simple permutation in form that addresses the inevitable queries to the list regarding the problem of name-mangling by browsers a "good thing"(tm) (of course one could argue that the browsers need to be fixed!;-)). This idea seems to be focused toward that goal. Logistics of making this change aside, is there a reason this would NOT be a good idea? Just curious... Larry -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple