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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/

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