-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Onion <ponion@alien.bt.co.uk> wrote:
Ok, "stooppid" wassn't what I ment. It seems "Unhelpful" to use a non-unique extension in that way. Atleast ".rpm" tells you whats in there, which is afterall the purpose of the extension.
As a general rule of thumb, most people do not use .tgz to mean .tar.gz, and so I don't think it's particularly unhelpful. Most source distributions these days come with 3 different extensions... .tar.gz - good ol' gzip'd tar archive .tar.bz2 - more recent player in the field, generally better compression than gzip, uses bzip2 to compress the tar archive. .zip - for the windows people that know no better! I don't think that I've seen a .tgz file as a .tgz file for some time, but then I tend to use .deb files... and even then they're generally hidden behind apt! (Except the packages that I build, which then get moved in to the webtree, and are then apt-able too :) Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC16wHEh8oWxevnjQRAqE2AKCbd9UE8/0aBBgEuB5gUpqPDrkonACgm1Cc fQVKNZr4cMONghjMfeB5Ft8= =XIRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----