From: Charles W. <cwi...@us...> - 2008-03-29 18:27:04
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Keith Marshall wrote: > Semantically, it makes no difference. Syntactically, I think it is > easier to read, (by humans), if the dll version is also preceded by a > hyphen, (it makes the `dll' element stand out better), so the last > would become: > > mingw-runtime-3.14-1-dll-0.tar.gz True, but that makes it much harder for automatic parsing (thinking of dependency/package management software). "The last chunk is part of the package 'name'" vs. "The last chunk, or maybe the last two chunks if the N-1 chunk == 'dll' is part of the package 'name'". Take a look at today's version of this page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=67879&release_id=540763 Look at the (new) guile or openssl packages... -- Chuck |