On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, David Douthitt wrote: [...] > What do you all think about NOT getting package names from the name of > the package file? > > For example: > > foo.lrp > > ...could have its real name being... > > fooBecomesALongNameBeforeYouKnowItanditsUNSTOPPABLE!!!! > > :-) Seriously though, then you could have longer names like: > > myPackage.list > myPackage.version > myPackage.help > > ...and pack them up into... > > mypkg.lrp > > ...well? Long filenames are usually attractive, but not when they cause headaches. > My thoughts are the package name could be picked up from a file named > "var/lib/lrpkg/XXXXXX.list" instead - and if there isn't one, it won't > matter what the package name is anyway. named what? XXXXXX.list - overwritten by multiple packages... complicated foo.list - not much improvement, hmmm? fooBecomesALongNameBeforeYouKnowItanditsUNSTOPPABLE.list - well, getting there, but the _contents_ of this file are already defined, and you still need a way to map the long filename back to an 8.3 filename for backup. Oh, and minix only handles 30 character filenames. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Work:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
