On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:25:34AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I forgot to mention this earlier, but I also like the idea of the >necessary files being in one tar, like this: > >http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/5153/cygwin-package/tmake-1.8-1-package.tgz > >Instead of three separate files (.hint, -src.tar.bz2, .tar.bz2). This >makes it easier to check out a package. Especially the setup.hint files have >had some CRLF problems. > >Could this be a new standard?
I think that anyone who uploads the files would rather have them in three separate files. It's easier to just say "curl -Os http://qwer/wqer.tar.bz2"; three times than to do it once, extract it and copy the result to the correct release directory. IMO, of course. cgf
