Re: [Firebird-devel] Improve release filenames

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 25-08-2022 15:13, Stefan Heymann wrote:
>> I propose this name convention starting with Firebird 5:
> 
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x86-pdb.exe
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x86-pdb.zip
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x86.exe
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x86.zip
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x64-pdb.exe
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x64-pdb.zip
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x64.exe
>> Firebird-5.0.0.2816-0-windows-x64.zip
>> [...]
> 
> I'd like to suggest you use win32 and win64 instead of x86 and x64. Or, it you want to keep the "windows" prefix, use window-32 and windows-64.
> 
> For me as a Windows user this would be much more logical (the 86 comes from the 80*86 processor, the 64 comes from 64 bits, so it's not consistent from the beginning).

The proposed naming has the benefit it is consistent across platforms. 
That is:
Firebird-<version>-<os-family>-<target-cpu>[-qualifier].

I don't see the need, nor the point to deviate from this for Windows.

Mark
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