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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

I don't like using dots for anything but versions and suffixes (because 
it would be harder for Sorcery to recognize where tyhe version ends ;-) 
), hence the question: did you consider smgl-version-arch.iso, or (IMHO 
even better) smgl-arch-version.iso? Just a thought.

Eric Sandall wrote:

> In preparation for our SMGL ports (PPC, SPARC, and possibly Irix (unet?)),
> I would like our ISOs to be renamed as follows:
>
> smgl-<version>.<arch>.iso
>
> I made everything lowercase (I dislike upper case, but if enough people
> whine we can keep it upper case... ;)).  I also removed the 'ISO' label,
> as the extension labels it as an ISO, no need having the name repeat it.
>
> Examples:
> smgl-6.1.i386.iso
> smgl-6.1.ppc.iso (Do we need other naming?  .g3, .g4 instead, similar to
> .i386?)
> smgl-6.1.sparc.iso
> smgl-6.1.sparc64.iso (requires a 64-bit kernel to boot, could possibly
> combine the two SPARC ISOs into one and just have the user select which
> kernel to load, as the rest of the applications can (and should, according
> to people on #sparc) be compiled as 32-bit).
> etc.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -sandalle
>
>