> Am 13.10.2018 um 11:09 schrieb Cyril Ferlicot <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> 
>> On sam. 13 oct. 2018 at 10:42, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote:
>> I don‘t want to kick off another war but shouldn‘t we add pharo as a 
>> language to github. Now it is a topic but the configurations for linguist 
>> are still tying it to smalltalk. 
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Linguist find the language based on theee things:
> - what is written on the .gitattribute file
> - the extension of the file
> - the source code (it compares it with examples)
> 
> Since multiple Smalltalk shares FileTree format and Tonel format, the 
> extensions and source code will be the same for Pharo and other Smalltalk.
> 
> Introducing a "Pharo" language would force everyone to add a .gitattribute 
> file to their project, and I'm sure not that many people will do it. 

That is not a problem because the ones that want to distinguish do and the rest 
does not. But after sending the message I started to think it would only make 
sense when we switch the file ending to something else then .st Maybe to big a 
change and not important enough.

Norbert
> -- 
> Cyril Ferlicot
> https://ferlicot.fr

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