Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:03:00 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu: Patch Level in /v2gnu]
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> My suggestion is that the 8.3 rule be violated and the patch level appear
> in the name of the file.  This would make it obvious that an archive had
> been changed.  Even though this tail be stripped on downloading to
> a DOS system, the individual client could add this information to the
> file `*.ver' if the person doing the maintainer did not.

The 8+3 issue is the major show-stopper, IMHO.  I don't like the idea of 
the files which are named differently on the user's machine, since that 
would make it difficult to ask people what files did they download.

Perhaps mentioning the patch level in the 00_index.txt file would be an 
okay solution.  Of course, it requires that people actually look at that 
file...