Comment #5 on issue 1018 by [email protected]: need better suffix than ".txt" for plain text files
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1018
(This issue needs to be discussed with the whole core team. My opinions are my opinions and others are on Christmas holiday)
But I think that if we leave .txt and add another similar .rxt (or something) we could end up into new kinds of problems when people mix these two suffixes (for example in the directory pointing case). Mainly to problems where some suites are not executed if they have the other suffix.
I think that if robot would look for both suffixes, your original problem would not be solved completely. We would still need to somehow make .rxt the 'de facto' robot format. Old third party tools and builds could also do stuff wrong without anyone noticing it. It would also make it more error prone to build new tools if we support yet another suffix.
Could there be some other solutions to the original problem? For example: could you register a subset of .txt files .. like '.robot.txt'?
