Changing package file extension

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Nov-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| Hi,
|   Every once in a while (like just a second ago), we get users that
| can't figure out how to install packages. Basically, they start out by
| extracting the file. I'm guessing they do this because either they
| always do that to .tar.gz, or because their browser suggest that they do
| this during download. After they've extracted the package, they either
| have a .tar file or a directory, and they can't install that with 'pkg'.
|   So, perhaps it would be a good idea to change the file extension of
| packages? I mean, a file should be named
| 
|   image-1.0.6.octpkg
| 
| (or something similar) instead of
| 
|   image-1.0.6.tar.gz
| 
| Any thoughts?

I don't have any objection to a change like this if it helps to
eliminate confusion.

jwe