Re: Changing package file extension

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2009, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| 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.

Then can you do the work that Søren may be too busy to do?  I don't
think that it is necessary for us to jump to do something just because
one or two people are confused.  Or has this been causing much more
confusion than that?

jwe