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Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Static src tar for download.



On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Graeme Robinson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've created
> http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/XaraLXSrc-0.4r798.tar.gz as source
> download for release 0.4.  If you are wanting to link to the 0.4 release
> source, please use this URL.  
> 
> The XaraLX-0.4r798.tar.gz source file may be removed during server
> maintenance.
> 

Great, I just updated the FreeBSD port to reflect this.

Btw wouldn't it be better if it is
http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/recommended/XaraLX-0.4r798.tar.gz
instead of
http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/XaraLXSrc-0.4r798.tar.gz
I find the "Src" part a little unappropriate because a common way of
thinking is:
"XaraLXSrc-0.4r798.tar.gz is the source distribution, so then
XaraLX-0.4r798.tar.gz is not a source (probably it's binary) because
it does not have Src in its name". But actually the latter is also a
source distribution, which is confusing.

Also it is good if foowhatever.tar.gz extracts in foowhatever/
subdirectory, but XaraLXSrc-0.4r798.tar.gz extracts in
XaraLX-0.4r798/ rather than XaraLXSrc-0.4r798/

What do you think?

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