[bip] Writing Code that Doesn't Suck

Brandon King kingb at caltech.edu
Tue Sep 25 13:10:33 PDT 2007


I could live with that exception to the rule, but only as an alias url.

-Brandon

Erich Schwarz wrote:
> 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
>
>
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