From: Earnie <ea...@us...> - 2011-11-14 18:50:23
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Keith Marshall wrote: > On 14/11/11 12:33, Earnie wrote: >> Keith Marshall wrote: >>> On 13/11/11 17:45, Earnie wrote: >>>> Actually it just needs to be a file with README in the name. >>> >>> And it's case agnostic. Yeah, I knew that; readme.txt fits the bill, >>> doesn't it? It's *generated* for mingw-get, in the same directory as >>> the README which goes in the source distribution, and I wanted to avoid >>> the potential README vs. readme conflict, which would arise for anyone >>> building on a case-insensitive platform, (such as MS-Windows). >> >> Only if readme and README were in the same directory. > > And, as I've said above, in the mingw-get case, they ARE: README and > readme.txt are both generated, into a common build directory, (and from > a common source, at least for part of the readme.txt content). README > goes into the distributed source tarball; readme.txt is presented to > visitors to the download page, where it summarises content from all > three of README, NEWS and INSTALL. > Oh, I misunderstood what you meant. >> README is the GNU expected file. > > So what? 1) We aren't constrained by GNU standards; 2) I'm providing > README anyway, where GNU mandates it, in the source tarball; 3) my > readme.txt is published ONLY on an SF web page, where again, GNU > standards are not applicable. > Ok. > I'm NOT changing this, for mingw-get, just because you seem to have some > sort of hang-up about readme.txt as a name. If you prefer to use README > as your name of choice, I'm not objecting, but do be aware that > MS-Windows knows that readme.txt can be opened by notepad.exe, in the > event that SF's former rendering problem should recur; it doesn't know > what to do with README. > Did not expect you to change it really. And if .txt doesn't contain \r\n line endings naming the file with .txt will cause the file to be opened in notepad.exe which then doesn't know how to display the text correctly. This is the reason I prefer to not name the file with .txt. Earnie |