Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: Filename suggestions (8.3) for WWIV 5?
From:    Rushfan #1 @513
To:      Granitepenguin #1 @90
Date:    Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:19

 G> Maybe do "D" for debian-family, and "R" for Red Hat-family.  It
 G> would probably make more sense to use "C" for CentOS-family
 G> though; the odds of someone actually running this on actual Red
 G> Hat is about 0%

I started with that, but for 'D' thought many people may assume D==DOS, so
thought L may be better.

 G> Another option would be to use "L" and bundle all the linux
 G> versions together inside the archive; it's not like the size of
 G> the archive matters.  Also, does it need to be a .zip?  A .tgz
 G> would be more "linux-y."

Yes, that's true there's very little deltas other than binary files between
them.  Trying to figure out the build process for that may be tough since each
linux archive is entirely built on that distro.

 G> Another option would be to use "L" and bundle all the linux
 G> versions together inside the archive; it's not like the size of
 G> the archive matters.  Also, does it need to be a .zip?  A .tgz
 G> would be more "linux-y."
Good point.  ZIP is BBS-y though :)

 G> Can you tell what my day job is? ;-)

You give packging suggestions to bbs software maintainers for a day job? :)
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