Re: pear installer

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > > Quoting "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no>: > > > 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. > > Actually, .tar.gz works just fine on my windows box (and is handled fine by > winzip). Yeah, but how many people will get problems because there are two dots in the name? I've seen some programs renaming to _tar.gz etc. FreeBSD uses .tgz for packages, probably for the same reason. - Stig