Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Christian Roche has submitted a revised version of a patch to modify
> the unique-name-finding algorithm to generate names in the pattern
> "foo-n.html" rather than "foo.html.n". The patch looks good, and
> will likely go in very soon.

foo.html.n has the advantage of simplicity: you can tell at a glance
that <foo>.n is a duplicate of <foo>.  Also, it is trivial to remove
the unwanted files by removing <foo>.*.  Why change what worked so
well in the past?

> A couple of minor detail questions: what do you guys think about using
> "foo.n.html" instead of "foo-n.html"?

Better, but IMHO not as good as foo.html.n.  But I'm obviously biased.
:-)

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