On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:31 pm, Tim Peters wrote:
At least stick a .txt extension on text files users may want to read. Does it also offend delicate non-Windows sensibilities, e.g., to see README.txt instead of README? If it does, the issue is broader than just
It doesn't bother me, but I can't speak for others. It's not clear when .txt extensions should be added; things like the README are most useful when a distribution is unpacked. That indicates the "sdist" command is a good candidate, but I don't know how often that's actually used (rather than just rolling a tarball from a CVS or Subversion export). There's also not good metadata support for documentation files in general in distutils. It would be nice to improve that situation. Again, we have cross-platform issues (CHM files on Windows, text files that need line-end normalization, and probably lots more). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation