--- In IBDI@y..., Mark O'Donohue <mark.odonohue@l...> wrote:

> Any suggestions welcome (see current confused scheme at:)
>
>

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9028&release_id=19364

how about
<product>-<version>-<special>-<os>-<arc>.tar.gz, i.e.

FirebirdCS-0.9.4-test1-darwin-powerpc.tar.gz
FirebirdSS-0.9.5p2-beta1-linux-alpha.tar.gz

<product> is 'FirebirdCS', 'FirebirdSS', 'isql', 'IBConsole'...
<special> is 'beta', 'test', 'dbg', 'prod'...
<os> is 'linux', 'freebsd', 'darwin', 'macos', 'solaris', 'win'...
<arc> is 'i386', 'alpha', 'sparc', 'powerpc', 'm68k'...

each of <..> may contain '_' as separator:
FirebirdSS_JavaStoredProcs-3.4-experimantal-Linux-alpha.tgz
FirebirdCS-1.0-prod-Linux_glibc2.1-i386.tgz

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Damyan