Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:26:33 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Andris Pavenis cc: Laurynas Biveinis , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Announce: LBInstDJ the DJGPP installer v0.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > With some DJGPP (written by me) program I merged > them (all 3 layers in a single file) into j-36-122.bil. As the result one of the original > files was overwritten if NameNumericTail=1. We don't really have an argument. We both agree that disabling numeric tails requires some vigilance on the part of the user. Even the FAQ says that. Note that disabling numeric tails is only required if the user wants his/her installation to work both in plain DOS and in Windows. If you do NOT disable the tails, your installation will be broken in DOS. People who want to work in both modes need to pay some price for that. Personally, I think that's a small price, but YMMV. I do agree that, for casual users, the numeric tails should be disabled only if the user wants to work in plain DOS as well. Whether DJGPP developers should or should not disable numeric tails and pay that price, is another matter. I think they should, because otherwise they will not be able to produce distributions that work for everybody. > Therefore I still think best would be enabling NameNumericTails=1 when > installing DJGPP and disabling it after that. That is another option, also mentioned in the FAQ. However, it means that every time you want to install something, you need to change the registry and reboot. Also, some packages, like TeX/METAFONT, produce files constantly as part of their operation, and those files are then used by subsequents runs of those programs. So this method adds to inconvenience and makes the chances of error higher.