From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:03 AM
> From: "Ben Hyde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:20 PM > > > Greg Stein wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:34:51PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > >... > > > > http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2_0_31-alpha.tar.gz > > > > > > Why can't we name our damned tarballs and resulting directories like all > > > other packages out there? > > > > A superstitious behavior involving a fear of the Windows handling of > > extensions. One of those things I recall feeling strongly about at > > the time. - ben > > I'd safely pronounce those days nearly gone, and 2.0 is as good a time as > any to change this convention. I don't advocate changing this for the -alpha ... when [if] you retar to release the -beta, that would be a good time, I suppose, or it can wait for .32 Bill
