Re: Xconq output files

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Hans Ronne wrote:

> >I vote to leave saved games with ".xcq". Furthermore, I would
> >like to change the checkpoint savefiles to ".xcq" as well, since
> >they really are saved Xconq games.
> 
> Yes. It makes sense for all game files to end in .xcq, so that they are
> opened by Xconq. I even contemplated if all the .g files should be renamed
> .xcq, but that would go to far (and also break the CVS record for all the

I thought about this as well, which is why I made sure to mention 
the word "save".

I could also associate ".g" with xconq.exe. But here I am a 
little bit more concerned with clobbering an existing extension. 
I think I can incorporate logic into the installer script to 
check for this though.

> >"XconqWarnings.log" and "XconqDebugOut.log".
> 
> Not sure about this one. A .log file to me is something that accumulates
> output from several sessions. Which these files do not. How about just
> XconqWarnings?

Sure, or how about "XconqWarnings.xcd" as you suggest below, but 
only for Windows? Since the default view settings in Windows 
Explorer hide file extensions, the ".xcd" files will appear to 
have the same names as they do on other platforms, but I will be 
able to associate shell extensions (e.g., Open) with them. (And 
for people like me, who prefer to see the extensions when dealing 
with Windows, they will appear less "clumsy".)

> >"XconqPrefs" or "XconqPrefs.txt".
> 
> I like XconqPrefs. The .txt extension looks screwy except on Windows where

I'll do XconqPrefs.xcd on Windows unless you object.

> Alternatively, we could have a second unique extension (.xcd ?) for all
> Xconq-related doc files that should be opened in a text editor. Perhaps
> this is a better idea.
> 
> >"XconqScores" or "XconqScores.txt" for the main scores file.
> 
> XconqScores is fine. However, since different games make different score
> files, this is a tricky one.

Well, we could alter existing modules where 'scorefile-name' is 
set to conform to some naming standard (perhaps the name of the 
the game module file minus the ".g" extension; in which case 
Bellum would be the only game currently in the library that needs 
to change). I would suggest that we remove any extensions from 
these, and then let the Xconq Windows code tack on a ".xcd".

So how does this sound?

Eric