shell files in packaging/win32 better with extensions

Christian Stimming stimming at tuhh.de
Tue May 1 07:57:58 EDT 2007


Am Montag, 30. April 2007 23:38 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> I just suggest people use svn to download that directory instead
> of pulling the files from trac.  But that's just my $0.02.  

You're totally right - in fact, that's what we already suggest. Regardless of 
whether this is from trac or from http-svn, the issue with non-extension 
files that get an extension added by the browser remains.

> You can rename the files if you wish.

Already done by Andi. Thanks a lot.

Christian

> Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
> > Hi Andi,
> >
> > just today I got my new WinXP Laptop and I started to use the
> > gnucash-on-windows build again. So far everything runs fine - with one
> > exception: When initially downloading the content of packaging/win32, the
> > fact that some files don't have an extension really confuses Windows. I
> > ended up with "defaults.htm" instead of "defaults", and "functions" the
> > same.
> >
> > Could we go back to .sh as file extension? We don't need extensions
> > anywhere else, but in this particular case I think they would be helpful.
> > svn move functions functions.sh
> >  svn move defaults defaults.sh


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