filetype for PHP
Jim Nagel (444) 25 posts |
No filetype for PHP appears in the list at https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/File%20Types In boot I find this line: |
Rick Murray (539) 13401 posts |
Where in Boot? Mine appears to be set up in !WebJames, which is ironic given that I’m not using the PHP build… ;-) |
Rick Murray (539) 13401 posts |
That list is wrong anyway, and conflates what is “OS defined” with what should be considered “allocated” (by Acorn). Examples? AFF is a Draw file. Easily tested – Equally “OS defined” is AF9 (Acorn DTP), AF8 (1stWord+), AF7 (interactive help), AFD (GCOL), CE5 (TeX), DFF (Logistix), etc etc. The |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
I received this:
and yet the ROOL Filetypes page has 18C and 18D as unregistered. So I guess you have to take the ROOL Filetypes list with a pinch of salt. |
Rick Murray (539) 13401 posts |
Really? It’s been there since revision 2, December 2009: https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/revision/diff//File%20Types/2 |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
Oh. I did not know about that page. I was looking at https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/File%20Types
which I found by entering Filetypes in the search bar. Incidentally, in the spirit of nit-picking and comma-hunting why the %20 between File and Types? FileType is a perfectly good CamelCase word – sorry Jim ;). |
Jeffrey Lee (213) 6046 posts |
No filetype for PHP appears in the list at https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/File%20Types News at Ten: Rioting in the streets as Wiki page found to be inaccurate! ;-) The page really should have had a note at the top to say that it’s a community-maintained list and not the official one. It does now. |
Rick Murray (539) 13401 posts |
It’s the same page. All my link does is show you the second revision, not the 43rd (or whatever it is now). Point is, Lua has always been listed. Dunno why you didn’t spot it.
Because the page is titled as “File Types” and the filename is derived from the page title. It’s the same reason for this mess: https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/File%20formats:%20SpriteFile
Gosh! Whodathunkit! Jury’s still out on whether the entry on RISC OS is reasonably accurate, or reasonably cribbed from ROLtd publicity. It’s better than it was,, though. I see that Wiki doesn’t seem to support “last night” being a last release time. Maybe we ought to fix that down to “stable” releases and mention nightlies in the text? |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
Amazing! I know that same and page , superficially straightforward words, can conceal profound metaphysical subtleties, which at the moment are eluding me. I await enlightenment with patience and benevolent wishes to all. |
Dave Higton (1515) 3404 posts |
I love that lots of filetypes are shown as “Commerical”. |
Dave Higton (1515) 3404 posts |
Interesting, isn’t it, that the current list shows 5 filetypes recognised by SparkFS, none of which is shown as registered. |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
That will have been inserted by a bit of “rouge” software! |
Rick Murray (539) 13401 posts |
The truth is at the top of the page I linked to. The joy of wiki is that you can take a document, and work back in time and compare one with the other. Added content is shown in green, deleted content is shown in red. The very first version of that page was a placeholder. It was the second version that had a ton of content (and a rather different layout). Since the entirety of the content was new (compared to the first version) it is all shown in green. So it’s the same page, just an earlier incarnation, being compared against a mostly empty original. The point here is that in v2, Lua is mentioned. I actually worked backwards through all of the updates (too hot to sit outside, so I was bored) and Lua was never not mentioned. Whether or not it has the tick to indicate a registered type is, to my mind, irrelevant unless two files try to claim the same type. If there’s file type on that list, it indicates that something is known to be using/have used it. Thus Lua’s inclusion is good enough. |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
Thanks for that. I had wondered at the green. My favourite colour. |
Steve Fryatt (216) 2045 posts |
That’s because the list is maintained by the community, since the official list is covered by the promises that Acorn and their successors made that the details of allocations would not be made public.
Or, seeing as you know that those types are official, you could help by updating the list to show that. You might be the only person who can actually do that without guesswork, after all… |
Steve Fryatt (216) 2045 posts |
I’m not sure that I follow the point? |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
I think you have just made the point – this is such a common left-brain right-brain typo that many people don’t see it at all. |
GavinWraith (26) 1532 posts |
I tried. I just get Internal Error, An application error occurred while processing your request . |
Dave Higton (1515) 3404 posts |
Look very carefully for the spelling mistake, then see how many times it has been copied. |
Jim Nagel (444) 25 posts |
> In boot I find this line: Sorry: I thought I had typed the Webjames part of that pathname in my original post. |