[Typo3-dev] introducing the fileConversion service

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Robert Fink wrote:
>>
>>subtype naming:
>>
>>how abot "from:to"? A colon is an unlikely character to appear in a file 
>>format. And I'd drop the three char conventoin. So something like 
>>"bz2:gzip" would be valid.
> 
> Right. I just wanted to prohibit "microsoftword2acrobat" or similar.
> I would stick to the "2" instead of ":" because it illustrates the conversion 
> direction and (at least on *nix-systems) is also a standard for naming 
> utilities (pdf-utils, ...).

I don't care whether it's : or any other reasonable delimiter. The digit 
2 (as seen in bz2) is not unlikely to be part of a name.

2 => two => to - not much of a standard, but just the silly habit of 
creating phonetic acronyms.

Masi