> On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:47 PM, David Judah's Shadow Blue <yudahssha...@gmx.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> So as a new frontend developer I'm confused. What is the purpose of the
> Abbreviation conf entry and why world I want to use it over module name which
> should already be shortish (at least compared to title)?
The [name] of the module is severely limited. When lowercased it is used as the
name of a folder where the data files are kept and the name of the conf file.
And in upper case it is used as the name of a zip. It is further constrained by
an original definition of a windows INI file. As such, it is limited to upper
and lower case a-z and to digits 0-9. Because of this usage, it has to be
unique without regard to case in a repository.
We were also having a tradition of module names that had non-English language
designation as the prefix, such as Ger for German. Probably should have been
prefixed w De or not at all.
This is not appropriate for languages that use other scripts or have lots of
accents. Peter proposed Abbreviation as a means of providing what the very
short, well known, internationalized name that is more appropriate.
Hope this makes sense.
In Him,
DM
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