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Re: [PATCH] setup.exe & different archives for the same version ofthe app
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.exe & different archives for the same version ofthe app
- From: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: 03 Nov 2001 10:58:48 +1100
- 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
- References: <NFBBIBMBMMAMDPDHMKEBKEBACBAA.ronald@minisat.com><1004694386.6940.56.camel@lifelesswks> <3BE2AE80.EAF3FC24@syntrex.com> <3BE2DF9D.7080100@ece.gatech.edu>
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