Re: filenaming proposal for IAFA description files

[Aydin Edguer <[e-mail]>]

> The name that the IAFA draft suggests for UNIX sites, for this kind of
> information is IAFA-PACKAGES.
...
> The intention here is _not_ to have the same filename convention for
> every Operating System. This would necessarily mean that we'd have to
> stick to the lowest common denomenator, and that would be ridiculous.

Uhmm, although I am firmly against lowest common denominator for all
the file names in an archive (as previous comments may have shown) I
do disagree with you here.  According to the current IAFA documents,
the IAFA-PACKAGES and similar names are _REQUIRED_ names.  Thus I do
feel that for the IAFA mandated files (and only those!) we should go
with a lowest common denominator (e.g. 6.3 or whatever) file name.

In opposition,
Aydin Edguer