[Zlib-devel] pigz 1.5 available for testing

[Greg Roelofs]

> On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Greg Roelofs wrote:
>> Just use ".zlib", eh?

> Aren't there still systems out there that limit the extension to  
> three letters?

You mean DOS?  FlexOS?  RISC OS, maybe?  Not so much, I suspect.  And you
can always ifdef it so that people using such systems can compile a special-
purpose version to default to ".zlb" or ".zli" if the OS can't just truncate
nicely.

But honestly, in this day and age, it would be a shame to forego the obvious
in order to accommodate dinosaurs that may or may not be used by a minuscule
number of folks (who are pretty much guaranteed to know how to deal with the
problem by now anyway).  Ten years ago, DOS/Win3.x was the big worry due to
the unwashed masses; now it's history.

IMNSHO, anyway...

Greg