Hi Ludo,
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 15:40, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> That said, if you become aware of actual breakage, we can revisit this!
The actual breakage is my own interaction with this file. :-)
Again, it happened to me yesterday. By habits, I do:
$ wget https://guix.gnu.org/sources.json
$ cat sources.json | jq | head
Then,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 16
cat: write error: Broken pipe
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Well, we are 6 days later my last message, 12 days after your message
and more than one month after my report; and again the same mistake.
That’s mistake because it does not jump to my eyes that the file is
compressed. Yeah, I could do many on my side as change my habits, as
use curl, as have a smarter cat, as write a note, as have a better
memory, as …
However, the simplest still appears to me to have the extension
reflecting the format of the file. Similarly as it is ’sources.json’
and not just ’sources’.
Cheers,
simon
