On Sep 14, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Stephen Chrzanowski <pontiac76 at gmail.com> wrote: > > There are many extensions of the same .. err.. > name(?)...value(?)..structure(?) that are completely different things.
It?s fairly bad in the electronics engineering world, where it seems like half the tools use *.sch for schematics and *.brd/pcb for printed circuit board layouts, but none of the tools agree on the format of the actual file data. If you have two such apps installed, you have to make a hard choice about which app becomes the default to open such files, and occasionally have to fix it when updating the other app, as it takes over the extensions again. This widespread unwillingness to get beyond the 8.3 limits, particularly on Windows, is annoying. We haven?t had to worry about compatibility with 3-character file extensions since Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95, two decades ago now. Call your files *.myspiffyapp, or something completely unique, please. Just because the data inside is managed by SQLite doesn?t mean all SQLite-based apps would like to open your app?s files.
