Re: Changing package file extension

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2009/1/29 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:

> I don't think that tar or gzip should care what the extension is,

Yeah, tar doesn't care (and if you just pack and unpack with "tar
-xzvf" and "tar -czvf", you can use whatever extension you like).
gunzip cares, but you can override the extension it expects is with
the -S option.

I don't see this as urgent either, but anything that reduces newbie
confusion seems like a good idea to me, especially when it's such a
minor cosmetic change. People complain *so much* when software doesn't
work as expected that I'm starting to think it's easier to change the
software than people's expectations.

- Jordi G. H.