On Thursday 10 June 2004 04:51 pm, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:31 pm, Tim Peters wrote:

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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

Why not include README and README.txt? I have seen that in some tarballs. Usually they're different files, but they're so small I can't imagine that it would matter if there were just two copies of the same file. .... Bob