Re: github finally believes we exist

2013/8/19 Paulo Moura <[email protected]>

> Hi Carlo,
>
> On 19/08/2013, at 11:35, Carlo Capelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Maybe could be interesting to 'grab' the .lp extension, if it appears to
> be (still) free.
> >
> > Actually in SWI-prolog it's as easy as to put in ~/.plrc
> >
> > user:prolog_file_type(lp, prolog).
> >
> > and all seems to work appropriately.
> > No need to change any of the current code base...
>
> You may remember that we discussed extensions not long ago:
>
> https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2013/010294.html
>
>
Yes, I remember :)


> I still think that ".prolog" is the best in the long term.
>
>
Seems that github' linguist is already supporting this point of view....

Cheers,
>
> Paulo
>
>
> > 2013/8/19 Paulo Moura <[email protected]>
> > Hi Anne,
> >
> > On 19/08/2013, at 06:06, Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Another small victory - Github now classifies prolog code correctly.
> They used to classify it as perl.
> >
> > That was been true for some time. But it seems that some projects need
> to be re-analysed for the language statistics to show up corrected. But
> identifying source files as Prolog source files is not always accurate. The
> software doing the job, linguist, still defines the Prolog bits as:
> >
> > Prolog:
> >   type: programming
> >   color: "#74283c"
> >   primary_extension: .prolog
> >   extensions:
> >   - .pro
> >
> > Me and others tried to get .pl recognized as the de facto standard
> extension for Prolog source files but it was a lost battle. Thankfully,
> linguist (also) uses the actual contents of the files to try to infer the
> language used in a source file. Sometimes linguist guesses it wrong and you
> can find e.g. people also complaining that suddenly that have become Prolog
> programmers :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paulo
>
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