Re: pear installer

Kendrick Vargas wrote: > > 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. Since we want to include Windows users it'd be best with a three-letter extension. ".tgz" is a fallback solution, and like you say, it may not be much of a point trying to obscure the fact that we're using tar/gzip, especially since Windows is much more extension-centric than UNIX. .tgz? - Stig