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From: greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Archive-name:" proposed change
Message-ID: <1258@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 18:27:16 GMT
References: <97030@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1220@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <13558@ncoast.ORG>
Reply-To: Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
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In article <13558@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Thought:  extend the auxiliary headers as follows:

>Submitted-By: ...

I'd like to see this expanded to include the author's name (if different):
  Submitted-by: Joe Jones   Written-by: Sam Smith
(I know, it's usually in the documentation, but I think it's valuable to
give highlighted credit where credit is due.)

>Archive-name: foobar/Part01
>Archive-version: 1.0

It's my point that this is really foobar/1.0/Part01 (or actually, to keep
the components uniform so that they sort well, foobar/V01r00/Part01).  That
is, it's part one of version one, so it should be possible to sort with the
version being more significant than the part.  I'm also tacking on bin, src,
or doc (as in foobar/V01r00-bin/Part01) when I want to indicate what is in
the package, although this distinction may only be useful when archiving both
sources and binaries, as with comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga.

>Archive-keywords: C, K&R, SunOS4, NeWS, binary

I'd find this useful, but I'd rather have the category(categories) of the
package listed -- it'd be more useful to me if I knew that the primary
category of a MIDI library package was "libraries" but that it should be
cross-filed under "audio/music" as well.  I'd buy a "Categories:" auxilary
header for this purpose; that would be even better than my proposal, but
it would involve a change to the types of headers, which I was trying to
avoid.  (What do you think of that, Bob?)  The keywords somehow seem too
low a level of description.

>Warnings: contains uuencoded, compressed bitmaps

Hmmmmm.....  No opinion here; but then, I'd expect to find this sort of
thing in comp.binaries.amiga.

>Moderator: ...

It seems to me that this is something that should be hashed out among the
moderators themselves.
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