On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Stefan Seifert <[email protected]> wrote:
> currently a sling provisioning file [1] has just a file extension "txt". This 
> is ok for all current usecases, but makes it difficult for tooling to apply a 
> file validation or syntax highlighting.
>
> we are currently working on some configuration generation tooling that uses 
> validators to ensure the generated files are valid. we can detect sling 
> provision file format only by extension and loading the content and doing 
> some heuristics on it (e.g. "contains '[feature '"). quite ugly.
>
> it would make sense to invent a new file extension specific to sling 
> provisioning files, e.g. ".provisioning".
>
> WDYT?

Well, it is just a text file, so txt sounds right. It also means that
a text editor is always associated with it in desktop environments +
IDEs, which is a plus.

Would adding a some metadata to the file in the form of comments work?

Robert

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