Re: Changing package file extension

[David Bateman]

Soren Hauberg wrote:
> tor, 29 01 2009 kl. 15:10 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
>   
> > On 29-Jan-2009, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >
> > | Is this really all that has to be done? It feels kinda silly to submit
> > | a diff for something like this. I guess the real change has to be in
> > | the 'Forge website.
> >
> > I think I should wait on applying this patch until we get agreement
> > from whoever is building packages for Octave Forge that this is the
> > right thing to do.
> >     
>
> I guess that's me. I'm a bit overworked at the moment, so I'm neglecting
> my Octave-Forge duties, which is a bit embarrassing I guess. From a
> practical point of view it's trivial to rename the package files during
> building. It might, however, be problematic to upload files with a
> non-standard extension to Octave-Forge (I don't know as I haven't
> tried).
>
> Soren
>
>
>   
Uploading isn't the issue, its the automatic recognition of what type of 
file that is uploaded might cause an issue. I think ReleaseForge should 
avoid this problem...

D..

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