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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 10:56:18 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
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        Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: press for cygwin
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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.

--Chuck



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