Comment #8 on issue 1018 by [email protected]: Alternative extension
for test data in plain text files
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1018
Can we add this to 2.7, please?
I would be happy to submit a patch for the change and a few tests, though I
need a tiny bit of guidance. After just a cursory glance it seems like all
it takes is to add a new suffix in the READERS dict in
robot/parsing/populators, though this is where the guidance comes in --
maybe you guys know of other places in the code where suffixes are
hard-coded.
All I need to get started is for a decision to be made on the suffix. I
recommend one of ".rbt", ".rxt" or ".rf", none of which appear in the
wikipedia page on file formats [1]. That's not exactly an exhaustive list,
but it does have the few hundred most common suffixes.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats
