>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Christopher Sean Morrison >Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 07:31 >To: Developer discussions >Subject: Re: [brlcad-devel] 'pl' Suffix for Plot Files .. >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.
Fine (but no promises anytime soon). I'll work on it as I can and submit a proposed patch if/when ready. Are we agreed on the extension being '.pl3'? # pee-ell-three If so, then it seems to me that all the programs with pl in the name (as above as a minimum) should have (in Perlese): $progname =~ s/pl/pl3/o; Regards. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
