Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/03/11:56:31
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
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e-mail: dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com
b DOT dautrevaux AT usa DOT net
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