Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: Filename suggestions (8.3) for WWIV 5?
From:    Granitepenguin #1 @90
To:      Rushfan #1 @513
Date:    Fri Jun 05, 2020 15:01

R>  G> Maybe do "D" for debian-family, and "R" for Red
R>
R> I started with that, but for 'D' thought many people may assume
R> D==DOS, so thought L may be better.

Amusingly enough, I had the same thought (hence the "combined L"
idea).

R>  G> Another option would be to use "L" and bundle all the
R>  G> linux versions together inside the archive; it's not
R>  G> like the size of the archive matters. Also, does it
R>  G> need to be a .zip? A .tgz would be more "linux-y."
R>
R> Yes, that's true there's very little deltas other than binary
R> files between them. Trying to figure out the build process for
R> that may be tough since each linux archive is entirely built on
R> that distro.

Maybe that's a separate workflow that gets invoked after the
archives are built.

R> G> not like the size of the archive matters. Also, does
R> G> it need to be a .zip? A .tgz would be more "linux-y."
R> Good point. ZIP is BBS-y though :)

I knew that would be the retort.  Besides, using ZIP still gives
us the "view ZIP" option to implement. :-)

R>  G> Can you tell what my day job is? ;-)
R>
R> You give packging suggestions to bbs software maintainers for a
R> day job? :)

God, I wish.

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GranitePenguin

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