On Monday 13 March 2006 13:53, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
+1. Pretty offensive, and imho, belittling the issue at hand.
Seems otherwise people don't get it.
It does go against standard naming practices. Though perhaps I should just go
No, it does not. PE executable files are used to be named *.EXE although this is not a technical requirement but as long as this does not interfere with usage there is no need to change this practice. And actually it does not interfere with system usage because the user never has to call this binary manually.
It goes against standard posix naming practices. PE = portable across 32 and and 64 bit Windows, now extended via .Net, and brought to Linux via Mono. Yes, .exe is correct in a Windows environment. And .Net is a Microsoft product. Mono is a Linux implementation of .Net. This means we use the naming principles MS has deemed acceptable? Do we then abandon other accepted "standards" within the Linux community by extension of Microsoft technologies being used by Linux?
edit my linux.ini and rc.bat?
Exactly _that's_ the point. If some people see something they associate with Microsoft, they run cracy like a short-tempered bull. Either they learn to see the world in a more technical objective way or they are likely to earn more sarcastic comments like the one above.
Ah, so people getting short-tempered with something obviously MS related, and your comments are different.... how?
If your aim is to destroy anything related to Microsoft you have a _really_ long way to go, but if you waste your time whining about file name extensions then you will stumble already before doing the first step.
Robert
My problem isn't with the naming so much as with the back end supporting it, as commented elsewhere. Repeatedly. Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin