.orx is fine (is in my list). I don't understand .cls (lots of OO languages
have classes, or clear screens). As for testUnit .. what has that to do with
Rexx? rxTestUnit, RexxTestUnit, ooRexxTestUnit, ooRexxUnit (etc.), maybe ..
Grabbing generic names for specific projects just seems wrong to me. Hmm,
suppose I grabbed .rony for my latest avionics data format (or for a really
boring services-oriented business-methodology advert format...) :-)?
Mike
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From: Rony G. Flatscher [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 22 September 2010 18:15
To: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] Enhanced Windows installation program
On 19.09.2010 15:34, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
> Would also associate in addition all other regular Rexx
> extensions like ".rexx", ".cls", ".orx", ".testGroup", ".testUnit", which all
> are in use in the Rexx world.
.rexx and .orx .. maybe .. but the others just seem to be "grabbing extensions"
-- particularly for most installers?
Originally I also thought that way.
However, once I started to work with file associations may POV changed:
associating filetypes with rexx makes them stand out in the graphical
user-interfaces (Windows Explorer, Linux Konquerer/Nautilus) as these files get
icons assoic.
So if one wishes to indicate (visually) to the user of which type a file is,
then one must associate the file-type with Rexx, hence also associating the
file-types ".orx", ".cls" (quite heavily used in ooRexx!), ".testGroup" and
".testUnit". In addition these filetypes can be run with rexx by mere
double-clicking the files, which comes with the file associations.
So for the purpose of increasing the user friendlyness (and easyiness of dealing
with Rexx programs via the graphical user interfaces of the respective operating
systems) associating all these filetypes with ooRexx seems to be necessary
nowadays.
---rony
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