Hi

With the increasing amount of curl packages everywhere, I would like to see a
naming standard in how to name curl archives. I need your input. Am I on the
right track or am I lost in the desert?

I'm not saying anyone can't name their packages whatever they want, I just
want packages that I manage on the curl web site and associated mirrors to
use a unified naming syntax so that I better can machine-parse packages to
extract info.

Recent events have made me realize we need this.

The somewhat complicated suggestion I have, is based on this reasoning:

The package name must contain enough information for a user to pick the
correct package. The most imporant information is further to the left. All
curl packages will start with 'curl-' to get identifed as such. Each info
string is separated from the others with a dash (-) or a dot (.) for the
extension.

My idea of naming template:

  curl-<version><OS><ssl><type><culture>.<extension>

Where the separate fields have the following meaning:

  version: X.Y or X.Y.Z or X.Y.Z-preN
  OS: 'win32' or 'linux' or ...
  ssl: 'ssl' or empty
  devel: 'devel' or empty
  culture: compiler or environment specifics
  extension: 'tar.gz', 'zip', 'i386.deb', 'i386.rpm', 'ppc.rpm' ...

Thus, let me show you how I imagine this looks on real-world archives:

The original curl source package:

  curl-7.9.tar.gz

Precompiled version for win32 using mingw32 compiler, with SSL support
archived with zip:

  curl-7.9-win32-ssl-mingw32.zip

The development package compiler for win32, with SSL support, compiled with
MSVC++:

  curl-7.9-ssl-devel-msvc.zip

The very same package, but compiled with/for cygwin:

  curl-7.9-ssl-devel-cygwin.zip

The precompiled linux RPM package for redhat 7.1 i386 without SSL:

  curl-7.9-linux-rh71.i386.rpm

The precompiled linux RPM package for redhat 6.2 i386 without SSL:

  curl-7.9-linux-rh62.i386.rpm

A development package without SSL made for Mac OS X:

  curl-7.9-macosx-devel.tar.gz

A solaris sparc8-optmized binary package with SSL support:

  curl-7.9-solaris-ssl-sparc8.tar.gz

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/