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#19 tarballs unpack to current directory

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Owner: Steve Freeman

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Updated: 2003-06-10

Created: 2003-06-10

Creator: Greg Ward

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The convention for distributing source in tar files is
to unpack to a separate directory. E.g.
"mockobjects-src-0.09.tar.gz" should unpack to
mockobjects-0.09 or something like that.

Rationale:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/distpractice.html

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Steve Freeman - 2003-06-10

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Steve Freeman - 2003-06-10

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I'll take a look. That side of things need tidy up anyway.

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