Re: Changing package file extension

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| tor, 29 01 2009 kl. 14:05 -0600, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
| > 2009/1/29 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
| > > If the extension is not explicitly used in pkg.m, then I guess it is
| > > just a matter of documentation and changing the names of the Octave
| > > Forge packages.
| > 
| > Is this really all that has to be done? It feels kinda silly to submit
| > a diff for something like this. I guess the real change has to be in
| > the 'Forge website.
| 
| But does it actually work? Have you tried actually installing a package
| that has extension .octpkg ? I'd fear that some of the routines for
| uncompressing files might need changing.

I don't think that tar or gzip should care what the extension is, so
both

  tar zxf foo.octpkg

or

  gunzip -c - | tar xf -

should both work.  But yeah, have you tested it?

jwe