On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@apache.org> wrote: > For FM3, because the template language changes, we need to change the > standard (recommended) template file extension. I propose this: > > - ftl to fm3 > - ftlx to fm3x > - ftlh to fm3h
I'm fine with that. When I look up the file extension, ftl, I get a correct information. e.g, http://www.file-extension.info/format/ftl But, there seems to be something else associated with fm3 already. Wouldn't be a big problem, I guess. Regards, Woonsan > > Why not ftl3? Mostly because I think that "FTL" is kind of cryptic for > the casual user (which is almost all the users for a template > language), and so it was a mistake to introduce that term. Also in > almost all languages, the file extensions is the same or the > abbreviation of the project name. The user already knows that this > thing is called FreeMarker, hence, "fm" is the most speaking > extension. Also, we will have to clearly differentiate FreeMarker 2 > from FreeMarker 3, to avoid confusion (which Manual to look into), > hence the "3". (BTW, back in the FM1 times the extensions was usually > "fm"... it should have been "fm2" after that.) > > -- > Thanks, > Daniel Dekany >
