Re: Default pipeline filename

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| On 5/15/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
|>
|> Makefiles are called 'Makefile'. Ant scripts are called 'build.xml'.
|> Anyone want to venture an opinion about what XProc pipelines should
|> be called? Or if there should be such a default for command-line
|> processors?
|
| I've been using 'xpd' for the file extension but I don't think there should
| be a special default filename.

Hmm. I'll see if I can get used to .xpd.

| A tool vendor might want such a default file name but I don't see
| how we can say "make.xpd" is better than "build.xpd" or "process.xpd".

For the record, this wasn't a spec question, it was just a casual
inquiry from an implementor. If those of us building command-line
implementations made the same decisions...

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                                          norm

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