From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Schaap To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: press for cygwin Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 08:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010903174134.02c8ae40@imap.local.mscha.com> References: <3B939A12.5040009@ece.gatech.edu> <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E334@IIS000> <20010903111442.D2024@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00054.html At 17:14 3-9-2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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." I can think of two possible solutions: 1. ".cgw" files should always be bzip2-compressed 2. Use different extensions, e.g. ".cgb" for bzip2-compressed, and ".cgz" for gzip-compressed packages. I tend to think option 1. is the best, why, after all, would you have to support gzip-compressed packages? Perhaps setup.exe should support ".tar.gz" and "tar.bz2" files for a little while. - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/