Do we really need the word "scripts" in the script files? Isn't that
redundant with ".js"?
On 06/11/2015 02:21 PM, Sébastien Blaisot wrote:
> Le 11/06/2015 21:02, Be a écrit :
>> Mappings included in Mixxx have the XML file named with hyphens
>> separating words but the script files are named with spaces separating
>> words. Having two naming conventions gets confusing and annoying,
>> especially when typing the file names in a shell. I suggest switching
>> the script files to using hyphens to separate words. Thoughts?
>
> I don't care that much if we use hyphens, spaces or whatever, provided that:
>
> - wherever possible, use the same convention/name for js and xml files
> - only use characters that are acceptable for filenames on all OSes
> (regardless of OS language)
> - resulting filenames are easily human-readable
> - It's easy to find all files from the same brand / model (this files
> are near each other when alphabetically sorting)
>
> It's probably more readable to have a word separator different from a
> brand/model/comment/type/whatever separator.
> Something like
> brand - model[ - comment].type.{xml,js}
> with word separated by space if we have brand or model which contains
> several words.
>
> let's try it with an example :
>
> American Audio - RADIUS 2000.hid.js
> American Audio - RADIUS 2000.scripts.js
> American Audio - RADIUS 2000 - CH1.midi.xml
> American Audio - RADIUS 2000 - CH2.midi.xml
>
> This way, all files from the same brand are all together, as well as all
> files from the same model adn it's easy to read.
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today
http://mixxx.org
Mixxx-devel mailing list
Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
