Fix wrong naming scheme for third-party provider plugins about terraform-website HOT 4 CLOSED

Why was this closed? I thought that IS a valid scheme.

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I closed this because the issue was quietly fixed.

The naming scheme for provider plugins is terraform-provider-NAME_vX.Y.Z, and Terraform uses the name to understand the name and version of a particular provider binary. Third-party plugins will often be distributed with an appropriate filename already set in the distribution archive so that it can be extracted directly into the plugin directory described above.

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@ilyasotkov what is the purpose of the -x3 and _x4 I see in the docs and in the providers?
https://www.terraform.io/guides/running-terraform-in-automation.html shows terraform-provider-aws-v1.0.0-x3 and the file inside https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform-provider-aws/1.13.0/terraform-provider-aws_1.13.0_linux_amd64.zip for example is named terraform-provider-aws_v1.13.0_x4

Does that mean the version is v1.13.0_x4 or does the _x4 mean something else?
If I create my own custom provider, do I need to name it terraform-provider-myprovider_v1.0.0_x4 as well?

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If anyone else is looking, got an answer here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/terraform-tool/EolJNDaPqw8

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