Hm, that's certainly a possibility. I remember it coming across as mildly bothersome many years ago as well, but I supposed I've just gotten completely used to it over the years. It helps that there's no perl in BRL-CAD.
In addition to the code changes to support the new extension convension, it would involve changing the names of about 20 utilities that process plot files. From a quick search, those are: crew:/usr/brlcad/bin sean$ ls *pl pl[^y]* asc-pl pl-asc pl-hpgl pl-ps plcolor plline2 txyz-pl pixhist3d-pl pl-dm pl-pl pl-sgi pldebug plrot xyz-pl pl-X pl-fb pl-pl pl-tek plgetframe plstat Several of those would require mods as well as a few other tools (can't forget mged), and those in particular would need to be renamed to match a new suffix convention. If you're willing to take all that on (it should be all or nothing for consistency), I don't see a strong reason to oppose it myself. Cheers! Sean On Aug 28, 2008, at 7:42 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > The use of the suffix '.pl' for libplot3 files has bothered me for > years--it confuses this old Perl user (and some new ones, too). Are > there any votes for changing that to something like '.plot3' (to > distinguish it from '.plot') or '.pl3'? > > If so, I'll be glad to take a shot at finding all appropriate > references and submitting patches. > > -Tom > > Tom Browder > Niceville, Florida > USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
