Hi Paul, If .osgb isn't yet used in anything public, and it's the most nature naming for a OSG native binary format then I believe we should forgo the first dibs on the file extension and adopt it for the native binary OSG format - what we want is clarity for the widest number of people. Alternatively such as .bosg just aren't as natural, or fit in with the existing .osg and .osga file extensions.
Another aspect is that Wang Rui's approach is for an extensible binary format, and this means that 3rd party NodeKits won't need their own binary formats, then can just extend the OSG's native binary format. This means the pressure on having lots of new file formats diminishes. Robert. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Paul Martz <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Martz wrote: >> >> That would be true if it weren't for the fact that .osgb is already in >> use: http://osgbullet.googlecode.com. > > Oops! Sorry, I made a mistake. .osgb is _not_ used by osgBullet, but it is > used in a related project that is still in development and not yet open > source. That code is a candidate for inclusion in osgBullet in the future. > > Regardless, I did ask that the .osgb extension be reserved for my uses back > in June '09. So, to avoid an extension name collision, I'll ask that we > consider an alternative extension for the new binary format. > > I'll vote against using the same extension string for both ASCII and binary > forms of OSG's (new) native format. It would complicate use of osgconv to > convert between the two formats. Also, I like to know what is optimized for > production loading and what isn't, and what can be opened in a text editor > and what can't; using a different extension gives me this info at a glance. > -Paul > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
