On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:27:48 +0100 From: Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> To: inkscape inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Save and Open as .ZINK (was zip with images)
Pim Snel wrote:
I'd agree with Alan here. I think that ".svg.zip" would probably be better. This would probably assist in interoperability with other tools and will make users understand what they have better.
There is one advantage in giving it its own extension. The system can register this as mime type and automaticly open inkscape when it sees a *zink.
But I don't have any problems with the .svg.zip extension, so if you all agree I will change it to .svg.zip.
As far as I can tell you can't register something like .svg.zip (I just tried on WinXP), and I wouldn't worry too much about interoperability. After all, Sun uses quite a few different extensions for jar-like files (jar, ear and war come to mind) as well (and so does OpenOffice).
And what about all the different formats that use XML, you don't give something an extension like .svg.xml or .xhtml.xml, just because it uses XML to serialize its data.
Fair enough. You have clearly thought it through and there are good reasons to use a different extension. (Double extensions are inelegant but I only ever suggested using Zip or Jar. I was thinking primarily of inspecting the contensts of a collected file using programs like File Roller or Winzip and inspecting the contents of a Collected file but it isn't particularly important.)
The only minor concern would be that once you start offering Zink files there will be the expectation that future versions of Inkscape will be able to open them too but if you are careful that shouldn't be difficult.
Would it be possible to offer both, something like Type: "Inkscape Collected File (.zink, .zip) " including a secondary extension, so that if a user manually specified the file extension as .zip it wouldn't be replaced or changed?
Do whatever you think best, and thanks for your time and consideration on this.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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