#2614: Pick a default extension for Django templates
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Reporter: Allan Odgaard | Owner: adrian
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Template system | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by James Wheare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
I actually find Django's flexibility here quite useful. Rather then
enforce a homogenous file extension, it allows you to easily see what sort
of file the template is actually being used to generate. Using .dtmpl or
whatever means you have to open the file up to see whether it's
javascript, xml, html, txt, csv or whatever. You already know it's a
Django template because it's in the templtes directory. In order to keep
this glance-ability, you'd have to name your templates like
'main_html.dtmpl'
So the argument is, should you enforce/encourage a convention for the sake
of software at the expense of programmers? I'd err towards the human side
of this conflict myself.
That said, the Django docs could *suggest* a standard extension should
template authors want to take advantage of painless syntax highlighting,
while still allowing any extension to be used. Then it's the coder's
choice, and admittedly once you've been working on a project for a while,
you're likely to know which files are which.
So ideally, the grammar detection features of TextMate shouldn't rely on
file extension (I believe this is the plan for TextMate 2.0), but in the
meantime, perhaps an agreed standard extension can be officially
suggested. It should be made clear what the benefits are and that it is
NOT enforced.
I'd also like to argue strongly against .dhtml or anything that references
an existing extension as this would just be confusing.
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