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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:59:03 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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At 10:49 AM 12/20/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com> 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



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