[bip] Writing Code that Doesn't Suck

[Erich Schwarz]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Brandon King wrote:

> * [Don't] make releases with name <package_name>-current.tar.gz; use
>   <package_name>-<date or rev_number>.tar.gz instead.

    It can be handy to use <package_name>-current.tar.gz as an alias
URL.  But I agree that if one does this, the '<package_name>-current.tar.gz'
package should *unpack* into something sane and informative, like:

    package-current.tar.gz => package-5.2/


--Erich