Re: Changing package file extension

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Jan-2009, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| 2008/11/2 Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>:
| 
| >  image-1.0.6.octpkg
| >
| > (or something similar) instead of
| >
| >  image-1.0.6.tar.gz
| 
| I think this is really good idea. I support filename extensions that
| are descriptive of the purpose, not necessarily the format. After all,
| Debian packages are .deb, not .ar even if they *are* .ar archives, and
| Java packages, OpenOffice.org documents are .jar and .od* even if they
| both are just .zip archives, and configuration files are .conf, not
| .txt, etc.

Is anyone willing to do the work to make the change?  Should we
support both the new extension (whatever it is we choose) and the old
tar.gz?

jwe