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Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.exe & different archives for the same version of
	the app
From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>, Ronald Landheer <ronald AT minisat DOT com>,
   cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-patches AT cygwin DOT com
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Date: 03 Nov 2001 10:58:48 +1100
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On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 05:02, Charles Wilson wrote:
> <grumpy old-man voice>
> 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?
> </grumpy old-man voice>

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


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