Ideally the extensions would be somewhat consistent stylstically - that was one point in favor of .mc / .mi / .mp.
My goal is not to get to zero collisions - there is a *lot* of software out there. I'm trying to avoid collisions with common things. Apple's Objective C files definitely fall in that category; the ones you mention below, not so much. Bricolage is maybe the only one I'm concerned about - would like to get Wheeler's input on this. Collisions are not 100% avoidable and aren't the end of the world. It just means that one has to take a little more effort when opening up an appropriate editor, etc. Jon > Is there some reason not to use 3 or more character extensions? I currently > use .mas for internal components and .html for external components. I have > no problem changing, however, using 3 or more characters helps reduce the > chance of collisions. > > .intm - internal > .masp - mason pure perl > .html - top level component > > html is not a problem as the web server has to be configured for plain html > or Mason on a per site, per directory, per file, etc. basis. The other two > are ok - I'm not married to them - but they have the benefit of not being > used anywhere else that I can find. > > The three proposed above do have some collisions with other software. > > .mc - Bricolage Page Template, Metacard script, Modula-3 M3CG intermediate > Language File, NRC Inspection Manual Chapter, PlaySaver and PSEmuPro Memory > Card Save and Single Game Save, Windows Localized Message Table Resource > > .mi - CoCreate CAD File, Mental Ray Scene File, Winamp3 MAKI Scripting Library > > .mp - Stanislaw Kozicki cGPSmapper, Monochrome Picture (TIFF Bitmap), > Multiplan File, MetaPost Macro File, Photoshop Arbitrary Map File, Adobe > Audition Impulse File, WinEdit, MediaMonkey File, Windows MediaCenter 11 > > > Paul Wallingford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
