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.
