-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > 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?
Well, the original motivation for Chris was that it was actually interfering with the accept/reject rules; see the log.txt attachment at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20482; this behavior is also related to the -nd/-r behavior I brought up yesterday. However, that's obviously not a good long-term fix for the problem; the real reason _I_ like it, is that it preserves the type of the files, on systems/applications that depend on the filename extension to identify it. Most browsers I've seen, including Lynx (though for Lynx you can specify a flag to override it, I think) depend on this, at least for HTML; and even for JPEgs and such on Unixen it is often beneficial to have an extension that matches the type. It automatically gives an "-E"-like benefit (for this instance; not for URLs that don't end with appropriate extensions). - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHLkQ47M8hyUobTrERCKpvAJkBzlvl9td1pRmzfZqJmRM9M8LtJQCcCHl6 yDVeZRljJ2QSISmTxVQ/oLI= =Z+7T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
