Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 4:32:41 PM, Woonsan Ko wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> 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
BTW, we also have this thing (agreed upon earlier), that for the sake of easier tooling like IDE plugins, we will remove syntax auto detection, and instead rely on extension. (I'm yet to see any tool that can deal with FM2 syntax detection, unless it has used FreeMarker itself to parse the template... so we can conclude that it didn't work out very well in practice.) So we will need one more variation on all of all these for square bracket syntax. Maybe fm3s, fm3sx, fm3sh (ugh, my eyes...). > 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. For 3 letter file extensions that happens quite easily... and fortunately Lotus 3 is not very main stream nowadays. (It's quite surprising that the ftl didn't collide with anything.) > 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 >> > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
