Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.exe & different archives for the same version of the app From: Robert Collins To: Charles Wilson Cc: Pavel Tsekov , Ronald Landheer , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-patches AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <3BE2DF9D.7080100@ece.gatech.edu> References: <1004694386 DOT 6940 DOT 56 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <3BE2AE80 DOT EAF3FC24 AT syntrex DOT com> <3BE2DF9D DOT 7080100 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1004744567.9086.61.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution/0.15 (Preview Release) Date: 03 Nov 2001 10:58:48 +1100 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Nov 2001 00:03:04.0331 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8E3EDB0:01C163FA] On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 05:02, Charles Wilson wrote: > > 2. If somebody changed packaging from .gz to .bz2 without bumping the > release number, it was a mistake. Easily fixable -- maintainer should > release new version. Actually, they need to delete the old one completely, or else it'll still be there (and confused) in prev. But yes I agree. > 3. didn;t we already have a huge discussion about this whole > .tar.gz/.tar.bz2/.tgz/.tbz file-extension auto-recognize issue? Doesn't > the patch below implement *exactly* the thing we decided *NOT* to do? > Whatever happened to the "stream-based processing" idea? > It's there. Warren is working on it, and I'm hoping to get some specific targets from the whole glorious scheme out of the way to aid local package scanning logic. Rob -- 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/