[Catalyst] Remove .pl from scripts?

[Christopher H. Laco]

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Sebastian Riedel wrote:
> This question came up after the web frameworks night yesterday, many 
> people seem to think it's ugly.
> Should we remove the .pl extension from scripts?
> 
> 
> -- 
> sebastian

Here's what I said on #catalyst:

[x] No

#1. Many editors base their syntax highlighting and editing rules on
file extensions on the file extension. Whether you should or shouldn't
get editing those files is irrelevant.

#2. Windows hates to run files without file extensions, They may or may
not be an issue. Windows cones with catalyst.bat, which runs when you
type C:> catalyst MyApp.  IF the perl script were named the same thing,
that may not work. Windows people would be forced to always doing perl
catalyst.pl.

#3. Unless there is some intention of these scripts changing to say
bash, oy pything, or something else that could be specified in the
shebang, there's not reason to make it an ambigous file name.

- -=Chris
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