[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman 2.0 beta 1

Ralf Hildebrandt R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de
Fri Mar 24 18:59:56 CET 2000


On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Tom Limoncelli 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?
> 
> 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>

I rest my case :)

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Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb




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