K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote:
I understand - but changing the name from lrp to tgz is a _lot_of work - rewriting the packaging tools (lrpkg), rewriting the docs, reworking the webpages, recompile every package, maybe I forgot something - you see this is error-prone. And a renaming wouldn't help us to get more developers to solve the remaining issues (providing the files in /var/lib/lrpkg, strip down the packages to the needed stuff (no man pages etc.), stripping the binaries and on and on.
I'm sure you're right right that we missed the opportunity to make this change throughout Bering but the problem we're discussing is download. Can't people rename files from mummble.tgz to mumble.lrp after they have download them?
Tom
PS -- if your product is written in Bourne Shell, you have to be LEAF-aware on almost every line of code you write.
Tom -- I'm afraid you missed the point of my original messages. The download system handles .lrp just fine, treating it as a binary (application-octet) mime type. I tested this yesterday using Netscape on Windows. The problem we do seem to have is with the .iso extension -- see my message yesterday.
And yes, of course people *can* deal with this sort of problem by renaming after they download. But "can" != "should", and in my opinion it is bad practice to impose one more pointless chore on beginners who are already going to struggle a bit to get up to speed on LEAF. If we chose to suggest, or insist, that Windows downloaders avoid IE, then we need to correct any problems they encounter with downloads, not hand them extra chores. So Mike should fix the .iso mime-type problem as part of any away-with-IE policy.
I didn't pursue any of this in reply to your prior message, because your prior message was clearly NOT about download issues. You wrote about substantive problems that developers face adapting the CONTENTS of their packages to LEAF. That is in no way a download issue, and K-P responded to the issues you raised in that context. Your PS above continues that separate disussion ... which I will leave to you and him (or others) to sort out.
It is important, I think, to keep these two sets of issues distinct, not to bounce from one to the other arbitrarily.
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