<p>I'm happy for it to be lowercase and in text not have the file extention, and to promote a .txt file extension in contributed zip files.</p>
<p>Regards, Dave</p>
<p><blockquote>On 22 Mar 2009, 11:41 AM, "Nicolas Mailhot" <<a href="mailto:nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net">nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 11:24 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit :<br>
<p><font color="#500050">> Hi,
>
> Robert Martinez wrote:
> > also should we use "FONTLOG" or "Fontlog" (is there a reason f...</font></p>INSTALL and README are historic gnu-isms. The upper-casing was used for<br>
projects that dumped every single file in the install root instead of<br>
using subdirectories (caps sort first in ASCII).<br>
<br>
However,<br>
1. this convention does not work well for systems which are not<br>
case-sensitive<br>
2. this convention does not work well for systems that use localized not<br>
ASCII sort (pretty much every modern system)<br>
3. this convention does not work well for systems that use extensions to<br>
auto-select the right application to use (that includes web servers that<br>
deduce the mime type to serve from the extension)<br>
<br>
In other words, it's a legacy remnant that should die die die. Please<br>
use fontlog.txt and readme.txt instead. And if you have so many files in<br>
your archive those files are hidden in the mass, put the other stuff in<br>
subdirectories, keeping only the main files in the root<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Nicolas Mailhot<br>
</font></blockquote></p>