[PATCH]Package extention recognition (revision 2)

[Robert Collins]

My fault, we discussed this on cygwin-apps when you where adding package
support to cygcheck.

I was looking for a clear and easy to read solution ;}. I don't think
that supporting foo.tar.bz2.tar.bz2 needs to be an objective though :}.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Package extention recognition (revision 2)


> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:59:17AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
> >And that test is still there, I moved it into the if () so something
like
> >".tar.bz2" wouldn't trigger the return .... : 0;  If all the ifs
fail,
> >return 0; still occurs.
>
> Hmm.  Seems like someone has "improved" this code from when I wrote
it.
>
> My version checked for a trailing component.  If it existed, it
returned
> the index into the string.
>
> This version sort of does the same thing but if there is a .tar.bz2
> anywhere in the string prior to trailing component, it will fail
> regardless of whether the filename ends with .tar .tar.gz or .tar.bz2.
>
> Perhaps that is an acceptable risk but it puzzles me why anyone would
> move from an algorithm that was foolproof to one that wasn't.
>
> cgf
>