Re: pear installer

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:03:03 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote: >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 never seen and never heard of such a problem on Win32. But may be I'm wrong. IMO we should take .tar.gz because it's properly supported by winzip and some other programs, so that we can say, that _nearly_ every win32 user can extract the files with very low effort. >I've seen some programs renaming to _tar.gz etc. Do you have some examples? I've never seen such thing. -Martin -- · Martin Jansen · mailto:mj@php.net · · Monschau, Germany · http://martin-jansen.de ·