Best uses an .exe file. Jonathon M. Robison Infrastructure Architect ET, ITI 313-323-9529 -----Original Message----- From: Robert Schiele [mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:28 AM To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] suse xp home sp2? On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:03:59PM +0100, houghi wrote:

If I see program.py I know it will run with Linux once I have python installed. If I see program.exe, I know that it does NOT run with Linux.

Nonsense. It suggests that it might be a PE file which it actually _is_ and that you can run it once you have Mono installed.

Again, the extention is there for the benefit of the user. *.exe confuses people and will make them take the wrong action, like not running the program or deleting the program.

People don't need to run this program manually anyway and if they start deleting files they don't understand, they are lost anyway.

For Linux no suffix is the right suffix.

For Linux an additional file permission should be invented: Stooge-Hidden. You set this permission on every file that average user does not understand. The flag does hide the file from the average user, because otherwise average user will cry at you for multiple weeks if they see the file, which might start to become pretty annoying. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."