Posted by
dIon Gillard-3 on
URL: http://ibm-netrexx.48.s1.nabble.com/jar-files-etc-tp677967p677969.html
On Tue, 7 Oct 97 09:33:11 BST, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
>Always a tricky problem -- I once suggested shipping just the .zip
>file, and almost got lynched by an AIX guru from down the corridor :-)
>
>The fairly compelling argument she had was that people often want to
>take a look at a package without running it, so they don't want any
>prerequisite stopping them 'opening' it. In the case of .jar files,
>one would have to have Java installed and running before one could
>open the NetRexx package.
Nope....just a zip file manager....but for the unix people, I see the
dilemma...
>Version numbers .. the snag with this is that the numbers tend to
>appear in URLs. So if you put the NetRexx download URL on your
>bookmark list, you'd keep getting the same (old) package, possibly. I
>prefer (and it's just a personal taste) to keep the current version of
>a package with a readable name, and rename older ones to have the less
>readable numbers. NetRexx 1.02, for example, is in nrexx102.zip.
>
>On my own disks, I simply suffix the version number: Foo.nrx.171, for
>example.
Hmmm...I might start doing it for myself then, as I understand the URL problem
and agree it's a good idea to keep the URL constant...
dIon, Multitask Consulting
Work:
http://www.multitask.com.auNetRexx:
http://www.multitask.com.au/netrexxRxExtras:
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