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

[Allen Gabrielle]

I don't know of any tool still in use (and any ones we had were not  
widely used).

On Aug 18, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> On Aug 18, 2009, at 08:56:38, Ian Hinder wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
>
> I looked in Cactus itself, and didn't find a tool in there that  
> seemed to assume .config.  I'll go look on the web site as well, but  
> if there are strong feelings we can certainly use a different suffix.
>
> -erik
>
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