[pmwiki-users] [O-T] Re: Re: Request for changing the default upload policy

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:42:05AM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> > PS. I can see that it might make things easier for Windows users who use
> > the file extension to control what type a file is.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> To some (ironically not including myself) the extension is important. 
> That's why I think it's helpful to include the extension.  Some users
> don't even see extensions -- they'll only see the icon that indicates
> it's a text file.  Double-click and it opens in the default text
> editor.
> 
> Omitting ".txt" erects an admittedly small barrier, but why have a
> barrier at all?

The standard for GPL programs is that the license file be called
"COPYING" [1], so I followed that standard.  We could change it 
to COPYING.txt, but I'll only do that in the context of a larger
reorganization (which I haven't committed to yet).

Pm