On Oct 23, 2007, at 01:09, Anders F Björklund wrote:
Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
This is what we currently have, except for this new mandatory .diff suffix (that breaks Ports compatibility)
You mean FreeBSD Ports? And, how do we break compatibility? Solely with naming conventions?I wouldn't worry too much about that, as a simple mv(1) is all that's needed to comply ;-) Or is there something else that I'm not seeing?
That's it, that's all.
"README ? Who would know that it's a readable file, README.txt it is. Makefile ? sheesh, Makefile.mak. And what's this ? A program ? .exe !"
File suffixes suck...
File suffixes are useful because they enable you to associate files with applications by file extension. When I doubleclick a file called "README" on my Mac it opens into TextEdit. I hate TextEdit and do not wish to use it, but because the filename has no extension, I cannot inform the OS that I would like it to open into TextWrangler instead. Same with files named Portfile or Makefile or whatever else.