Re: press for cygwin

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:45:25PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
>At 17:14 3-9-2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:56:18AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>>>>Why not then just generate files named ".cgw" instead of ".tar.bz2",
>>>>and let cygwin setup.exe know that?  Then WinZip will most surely *not*
>>>>be able to naturally open these files (neither now or in the future)
>>>>and this whole discussion will be closed, as well as any WinZip-related
>>>>thread.
>>>>
>>>>Note that not all packages should use the new suffix; only essential
>>>>ones (like cygwin itself) so that the burden on package developers
>>>>would not be too bad: after all, once you've installed the basic cygwin
>>>>parts using setup.exe, I doubt you will go back to WinZip! :-)
>>>
>>>Somebody else mentioned this earlier -- and explained that Debian did
>>>exactly that.  ".deb" files are just ar archives, but .deb implies that
>>>they obey some sort of internal format standard ("CYGWIN-PATCHES" ?
>>>/etc/postinstall?  )
>>>
>>>I actually think this is a pretty good idea.
>>
>>It does have merits except for the fact that you lose the ability to
>>distinguish between a .gz and .bz2 compressed archive.  setup.exe
>>determines the uncompression method from the name.  If it sees .bz2 file
>>it says "Bwhaha, this is a WinZip confuser archive.  I will uncompress
>>this file with great vigor".  If it sees a .gz file." it thinks "Oh
>>well.  I'll uncompress this but I'm not happy about it since the file is
>>recognizable to the evil GUI WinZip."
>
>I can think of two possible solutions:
>
>1.  ".cgw" files should always be bzip2-compressed
>
>2.  Use different extensions, e.g. ".cgb" for bzip2-compressed, and ".cgz" 
>for gzip-compressed packages.

The only "solution" is for someone to provide a patch.

I mentioned the magic number method.  That would actually work.  That is
why I suggested it.

If we are going to use analogies with other packages, then it should be
obvious that neither rpm nor debian modifies their package name based on
the internal compression format.

cgf

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