[m-dev.] Source distribution file name

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:58:32PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:36:53PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Previously we had a bunch of tarballs corresponding to the source distribution,
> >>
> >>     mercury-compiler-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >>     mercury-extras-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >>     mercury-tests-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >>
> >> As these have all now been rolled into a single tar ball, I propose
> >> that we change
> >> the name to
> >>
> >>    mercury-srcdist-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >>
> >
> > mercury-<version>.tar.gz makes sense to me.
> 
> That's often the name of the installation directory though.
> 
> > We don't provide any tarballs that _arn't_ the source dist.
> 
> We have in the past (and may again in the future).

Fair enough.

My remaining thing is that name-version.tar.gz is traditional.  It's what
sources for most other projects do.  (This is a pretty weak argument on it's
own.)  Sticking to what people expect may help new users.


-- 
Paul Bone
http://www.bone.id.au