[MinGW-dvlpr] Fwd: Filetype text please for release notes on SF

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

Henry Nestler wrote to me privately:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ :
> If I click on "Notes/Subscribe" for latest upload of autoconf,
> then Firefox (3.5.3 under Linux) ask only where to store this
> binary (!) file.
>
> I know, that the new FRS on SF is not very user friendly for
> uploaders and downloaders too.
>
> But, you can make the accessable of "release notes" a tick better
> for users by adding file extension ".txt" to the file
> "autoconf-2.63-1-msys.RELEASE_NOTES". Than, the user can choose
> direct view in an editor.
>
> Here is an example by me: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/colinux/files/coLinux-stable/0.7.5-linux-2.6.22.18

I don't see the problem Henry reports, with Firefox-3.0.14 on my 
Ubuntu-8.04-LTS box; however he may have a valid point.  If simply 
adding a .txt extension to RELEASE-NOTES files will improve the user 
experience, I see no reason to refuse to accommodate this, at least 
in the case of future package releases.

Obviously, since SF doesn't allow us (readily) to rename files, to 
provide this retrospectively for existing releases may entail some 
significant effort, and I'm not going to demand that anyone should 
embark on that; if anyone would care to undertake it voluntarily, 
then please step forward.

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Regards,
Keith.