Am 07.11.2018 um 01:13 schrieb Thibault Kruse:
Properties also support loadFromXml(), and I guess nobody wants to
suggest using .gxml as different extension?
While using specifc extensions for XML files carries the risk of the XML
schema information inside a file not matching the extension (in which
case I think the schema information inside the file should take
precedence), if all (textual) XML files share the same .xml extension,
you loose the ability to sort/filter/browse after a more specific
extension in explorer or shell, and you alwas have to open each file (be
it through a tool or by hand), to find out which information it contains
and to which application it belongs, which is cumbersome and slow (and
might not even be possible, if you lack the file system rights to do so).
So for me the benefits of having specific extensions clearly outweigh
the drawbacks (as I said, it could also be e.g. .xml.grps instead of
e.g. xgrps*)
Cheers,
mg
*using the more concise .grps extension would be funny in German, since
German "Grips" means brains/smarts...
- in any case I think we should consider using something less wieldy
than .gproperties (which is like naming the fundamental data types in a
language floatingpointnumber, integer, and boolean - oh, wait...)
