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Architecture Council/Metadata File Naming Recommendations
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Revision as of 17:16, 13 May 2011 by John arthorne.ca.ibm.com (Talk | contribs) (New page: Many Eclipse projects use the convention of starting metadata file and folder names with a dot ('.'). This convention comes from the Unix world, where dot-files are hidden by default. Howe...)
Many Eclipse projects use the convention of starting metadata file and folder names with a dot ('.'). This convention comes from the Unix world, where dot-files are hidden by default. However on other platforms, dot-files cause problems. For example the Windows UI will not let you name a file that starts with a dot, and on Unix/Mac it is painful for an end-user to navigate through metadata files and directories that are hidden.