On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:02:02PM -0700, Jon Buller wrote:
David Brownlee wrote:
First, can we pick a standardised extension for binary packages
which does not change whether the file is gzipped or bzipped?
Something like .tpz? Exposing the compression format in the file
extension is just confusing for no real benefit. It makes mixing
packages with different formats problematic, and as a user of
bzipped packages I've been bitten a few times when pkg_add has
tried to look for a .tgz package as a remote dependency (though
that may have been fixed now)
Might I suggest something even more generic, like .pkg?
I think this is an excellent idea - ".pkg" is by far the best suffix -
it tells what it is, and doesn't expose any of the internals, and
won't get confused between naive personal archives of code.
Regards,
Alistair