Am Monday 13 March 2006 16:24 schrieb houghi: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:39:07AM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > See my email address? Am I Novell enough for you? > > What? No mail from Jack L. Messman? Is he not at least lurking here? > > <snip> > > > I can understand your concerns regarding bloatetness (if any) and new > > default running daemon, but I do not understand your concerns regarding a > > simple name string like ".exe". > > We here know that a program can have any name, like `program.exe` or > `program.sh` or just `program`. > > Naming it `program.exe` is a bit confusing for the user, to say the least. > I will try explain how I think about it without any emotional thoughts > behind it. > > There is no technical reason to give it another name when it already is > called `program.exe`. The program can be executed. However people who will > see the program will automatically think that this program is made to run > under a dos-based system and will either try it out or test it first. > > Imagine that you would call it `program.txt`. That woould have the same > technical limits, yet it would also be confusing as to what the file is > capable of doing and not doing. > > extentions in Linux are there mostly for the convinience of the user. If > you take that convinience away, you have taken away the purpose of the > extention under Linux. > > In the past I have downloaded files that are named *.exe and deleted them > just to realize that it was indeed the correct file with a non-standard > name. So please if it is a program running under Linux, ditch the *.exe.
The same would also apply for python or bash scripts for example, which also run as python $somepath/program.py . No one complained here so far. .exe is only the logical consequence when you run apps which comes from a windows enviroment and there is .exe the right suffix. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
