On Saturday 25 July 2009 21:12:36 Zero3 wrote:
> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > On Saturday 25 July 2009 20:48:05 Zero3 wrote:
> >> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> >>> On Wednesday 22 July 2009 15:41:54 [email protected] wrote:
> >>>> Just curious, whom exactly does the 4 digit number benefit? Do users 
> >>>> care about this number? And if so why? (Sorry if these are dumb 
> >>>> questions. Just trying to wrap my head around the issue:)
> >>>> -Brendan
> >>> Basically the problem is the CDN we use (Google Code). A filename should 
> >>> uniquely identify its contents, when we change the contents we should 
> >>> change the filename.
> >>>
> >>> Is FreenetInstaller-0.7.5.1224.exe a problem?
> >> IMHO an installer should always contain the version number in its name 
> >> so that there is no doubt about which version it contains.
> > 
> > Yes, except possibly for download-the-installer-from-freenet? If it's 
> > fetched from the web interface we could do it there too though...
> 
> I personally dislike when you have SomethingInstaller.exe and no idea 
> which version it contains (and if it is up to date according to whatever 
> latest version the website announces). Or even worse, 2x 
> SomethingInstaller.exe with different sizes and no idea which is latest.
> 
> It's not a dealbreaker to me though. Whatever works out for you. 
> Distributing it over Freenet would be cool.

Okay so we'll just save to a version-dependant filename and delete the old 
versions.
> 
> - Zero3

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