Forum:Additional file types for CHDK wiki

In the CHDK wikia we have small camera script files, plain text & small in size (~1-100kB), extensions are


 * .lua (LUA script),
 * .bas (uBasic script) and
 * .txt (for description and readme - files).

Is it possible to add these file types to the allowed ones ?

For publishing source code fragments or diff files in the development also the following extensions could be usefull (all small, plain text files):


 * .c (C source code),
 * .h (C source code header),
 * .diff (Patch / Diff file for CVS),
 * .inc (C source code include files),
 * .S (C/Assembler source code stub),
 * .lang (CHDK language settings),
 * .grd (CHDK grid files, for ),
 * .idc (C-like language source code for IDA)

There's another filetype,


 * .rbf (CHDK font files, similar to windows TTF fonts) for small binary font files...

Thanks in advance, Fe50 11:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Since most of these files are text files, is there any reason why you can't post them as normal wiki pages? When I've had to post code to the wiki I usually put the text between   tags and all the formatting keeps as well. People can cut and paste from the wiki pages into their editor. Works perfectly fine.
 * I get the additional benefit of being able to use categories on the pages to make sure all the files for a specific project (code, headers, diffs, etc) are all automatically linked together. Tjoneslo 19:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * That's the way we do it atm, but sometimes people have difficulties with copy&paste, e.g. they often have an additional empty line in the beginning or a missing empty line at the end of the code when the selection range was not precise...often a typical neewbie problem, but we have many support requests with such not-running scripts and it's difficult to find out whether the problem is IN the script or the user made such a mistake.


 * When publishing source code or diff files sometimes a download would be much easier to handle, e.g. to prevent problems with CR/LF or TABs...


 * Wiki pages with long source code fragments, some diff's, additional data etc. are very confusing, and it's a pain to manage such pages.


 * So we plan to add additional download links to the files for easier usage ! Fe50 09:33, 23 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The wiki isn't an ideal place to store download files and still have them work correctly. I recommend using an external file host (like http://drop.io/ ) and providing links for the individual files and/or archives. Tjoneslo 17:25, 25 August 2008 (UTC)