Re: Changing package file extension

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Jan-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| I think it would eliminate some confusions, but would it introduce new
| ones? Would it be a problem for people who upload package files to
| internet servers, that the file extension is unknown to the server?
| 
| Anyway, if we make such a change what would be a suitable extension?
| '.octpkg' ?
| 
| Also, it might be worth mentioning that R seems to use '.tar.gz'.

OK, then unless someone feels strongly enough about it to push for the
change, I'd rather leave it alone.

jwe