Re: pear installer

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 2001, Richard Heyes wrote: > > > > The phkg file is just a tar.gz file (any better extension names? :-). > > > > .pear ?? > > Sounds good to me. Ummm... why confuse things by inventing extensions for media types that allready exist? That's just gonna create confusion later when things won't need to be confused. Someone will look at a .pear file and say "damnit, I wonder what kinda file this is" instead of simply untarring/zipping it. -peace --- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----------+---------- GAT d- s:+ !a C++$ UL/S/I/B++++$ P+ | "In the ongoing battle between objects L++ E- W+(+++) N K- w(---) O-- M@ | made of aluminum going hundreds of V(--) PS+++ PE Y+ PGP@ t++ 5 X+ R- | miles per hour and the ground going tv+ b- DI++++ D+(+++) G e>++ h--- | zero, the ground has yet to lose." r++ z+>+++ - END GEEK CODE BLOCK ---+