-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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>.*. > > It just occurred to me that this change breaks backward compatibility. > It will break scripts that try to clean up after Wget or that in any > way depend on the current naming scheme.
It may. I am not going to commit to never ever changing the current naming scheme. It is the responsibility of the upgrader to read the NEWS file, after all. Obviously I don't want to wantonly break backward compatibility, but this seems like a worthwhile change, and I can't imagine there being a particularly high number of such scripts. - -- 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 iD8DBQFHLlyk7M8hyUobTrERCD/XAJ9YQEoqdz4pFJi3OQlocjBFPz4ADwCfUu4D w+tkP1DrkvZxnosFcpV2jH4= =flxY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
