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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-15 14:53:57


At 02:51 PM 8/15/2002, Douglas Paul Gregor wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> But watch out for the .htm[l] gotcha; in libs/index.html you spelled it
>> libraries.html instead of .htm:-) Spelled right or wrong, it was a
good
>> idea - thanks!
>
>We could switch over to '.html' and ban '.htm' for uniformity...

Yes, we could. But SourceForge CVS doesn't do renames gracefully;
basically you lose all the history. You break all the links to the changed
files that are out there in the world. It is also hard to keep .htm from
creeping back in; .htm is the default supplied by some editors.

--Beman


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