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Re: press for cygwin
- To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
- Subject: Re: press for cygwin
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 10:56:18 -0400
- CC: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall at rfk dot com>,Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw at staff dot crosswalk dot com>,"'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E334@IIS000>
Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> Why not then just generate files named ".cgw" instead of ".tar.bz2", and let
> cygwin setup.exe know that? Then WinZip will most surely *not* be able to
> naturally open these files (neither now or in the future) and this whole
> discussion will be closed, as well as any WinZip-related thread.
>
> Note that not all packages should use the new suffix; only essential ones
> (like cygwin itself) so that the burden on package developers would not be
> too bad: after all, once you've installed the basic cygwin parts using
> setup.exe, I doubt you will go back to WinZip! :-)
>
Somebody else mentioned this earlier -- and explained that Debian did
exactly that. ".deb" files are just ar archives, but .deb implies that
they obey some sort of internal format standard ("CYGWIN-PATCHES" ?
/etc/postinstall? )
I actually think this is a pretty good idea.
--Chuck
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