Re: <module>.prop rename

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:33:00AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
 >      .prop is short for proplib or property list.  It also made
 > coding easier as s/.kmod/.prop/ doesn't change the length of the path.
 > Anyways, I have received several private requests to change the name to
 > <module>.plist.  After thinking about it, I believe this to be a good
 > idea.  It seems that .plist is a somewhat standard extension for a file
 > that contains a property list (see Wikipedia).

I don't care one way or the other about the name but I have a
different suggestion: since, nominally, serialized proplib files
aren't supposed to be hand-edited, wouldn't it make more sense to
embed the property info in the module file itself?

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David A. Holland
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