[Mailman-Developers] Re: Mailman 2.0 beta 1

[Tom Limoncelli]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Why on earth can't you just encode the version in the name like everybody
> does -- I mean, the subdir is called mailman-2.0beta1, why not call the
> [...tar file...] mailman-2.0beta1.tar.gz then?

That's yet another reason to prefer GNU software to commericial stuff like
mailman.  GNU has a standard for the name of tar files:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_48.html#SEC48

<quote>
	"Package the distribution of Foo version 69.96 up in a gzipped
	tar file with the name `foo-69.96.tar.gz'. It should unpack into
	a subdirectory named `foo-69.96'.
</quote>

Have a great weekend everyone!
--tal

P.S.  YES, I WAS KIDDING WHEN I SAID MAILMAN WAS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE!