On 03/06/2008 2:35 PM, Mike Prager wrote:
"S Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Plaintive squeak: Why the change?
Some OS's and desktops use the extension, so forgetting it causes
trouble. The new default filename keeps a filetype (as before) but the
user now has to type a filetype twice (once as the type, once as
extension) to get the same effect fo rtheir own filenames. And the
extension isn't then checked for consistency with valid file types, so
it can be mistyped and saved with no warning. Hard to see the advantage
of doing away with it...
Just for the record. . .
This change broke a *lot* of my code, including code used by
others. Windows depends on file extensions. Fortunately, fixes
using getRversion are not too difficult.
Then you'll be happy to hear that Steve put together a patch and it's
already committed, so it should make it into 2.7.1. The patch adds the
extension if there's no dot in the name, leaves the filename as-is if it
sees one. So this should be compatible with the majority of uses, only
messing up cases where people really don't want an extension (now
they'll have to add a dot at the end of their filename), or where they
want an automatic one, but have another dot in the name.
Duncan Murdoch
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