Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: Filename suggestions (8.3) for WWIV 5?
From:    Xenos #1 @60
To:      Granitepenguin #1 @90
Date:    Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:28

On Friday, June 05, 2020 at 13:17, Granitepenguin wrote:

G>RE: Re: Filename suggestions (8.3) for WWIV 5?
G>BY: Rushfan #1 @513
G>
G>R> For major, that'd be 5. Minor is currently 5 and point release
G>R> is 0, (5.5.0)
G>R>
G>R> For platform, W for win32, L for base linux (aka debian), and
G>R> either C or R for Centos/Redhat.
G>
G>I'm not a fan of this linux approach.  One of my pet peeves is
G>using "Linux" to represent one distro type, but not another.
G>Red Hat is just as deserving of the moniker "L" as debian is (or
G>any other distro, for that matter).  What happens when we build
G>for Raspberry Pis?
G>
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%
G>
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."
G>
G>Can you tell what my day job is? ;-)

Easy answer. Don't use ZIP for Linux archives. ;)

Use .TGZ for source tarballs.
Use .RPM for RedHat/CentOS packages.
Use .DEB for Debian packages.

Done. :)

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