Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3e46c362@news.povray.org> , Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde>
> wrote:
> 
>> BTW, I would appreciate if you could establish ordinary version
>> numbers like everybody else does. I mean, the file povuni_s.tgz
>> on the FTP should be a symlink to povuni_s-3.5c.tgz or whatever.
> 
> The updates are platform specific.  Thus there is no new version, it is
> still the same version of POV-Ray.

I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Wolfgang. A version number in the
file name would make sense. It's hard to guess, whether povuni_s.tgz
contains the sources for 3.1, 3.5, 3.5b, 3.6, or whatever. Of course,
if there is no difference in the source code between 3.5a and 3.5b,
it would be povuni_s-3.5.tgz. Different files should get different 
(recognizable) names. 

I am aware of the fact that there are still DOS users out there that
need a 8.3 filename. For the sake of the majority of the users however,
longer names would be preferable. If I remember correctly from the old
DOS days, ftp shortens the filename automatically. So, DOS users would 
not be harmed, but wouldn't benefit from version numbers.

Thomas

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