[Simfactory] Adding file suffixes to option lists, thorn lists, and script files

[Ian Hinder]

On 17 Aug 2009, at 19:23, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2009, at 16:57:29, Allen Gabrielle wrote:
>
>> Backwards compatibility with various other tools would imply
>>
>> .config
>> .th
>> .sh
>
>
> Backward compatibility it is.

OK I realise I should have commented on this before the commits were  
made, but hey...

The ".config" is very long; I would have preferred ".cfg", otherwise  
when you are looking at a long list of filenames, space is taken up by  
a lot of useless information (the .config is common to all the files)  
and this distracts you from the important information, which is the  
part before the extension.

Is there actually a "compatibility" issue, in the sense that for some  
reason some tools will break if we rename these simfactory files away  
from the existing convention?  I very much doubt it, since we have  
been using files with no suffix for ages.  I would say it is more of a  
"consistency" issue rather than a "compatibility" issue, and hence we  
should be free to change it if we feel like...

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Ian Hinder
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