Issue #7712 has been updated by zzak (Zachary Scott). Status changed from Open to Rejected I'm going to reject this, I agree with Luis [ruby-core:51610]. ---------------------------------------- Feature #7712: Add .txt extensions to all plain-text documentation files for Windows users https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7712#change-38963 Author: postmodern (Hal Brodigan) Status: Rejected Priority: Low Assignee: Category: doc Target version: next minor Given that Ruby is now aiming for Windows 8 support, all plain-text documentation files should have a .txt extension. This allows Windows users to easily open the files; since Windows relies on the file extension to determine which app to open the file with. For files that contain RDoc formatting, add a .rdoc extension. This proposed change does not conflict with GNU Coding Standards [1], which only specifies the required names of project files and not their extensions. Files to rename: * sample/README (.txt) * spec/README (.rdoc) * COPYING (.txt) * ChangeLog (.txt) * GPL (.txt) * README (.txt) * doc/ChangeLog-YARV (.txt) * doc/pty/README (.txt) * doc/rake/README (.rdoc) * doc/rake/CHANGES (.rdoc) * doc/rubygems/README (.rodc) * NEWS (.rdoc) * test/rdoc/README (.txt) (only contains "you don't have to" ??) * BSDL (.txt) * README.EXT (.txt) * symbian/README.SYMBIAN (.rdoc) * LEGAL (.txt) * lib/README (.txt) * misc/README (.txt) * ext/stringio/README (.rdoc) * ext/bigdecimal/README (.txt) * ext/gdbm/README (.txt) * ext/racc/cparse/README (.rdoc) * ext/ripper/README (.rdoc) * ext/tk/sample/demos-en/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/demos-en/doc.org/README.JP (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/demos-en/doc.org/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/tkextlib/tkHTML/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/msgs_tk/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/msgs_rb2/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/demos-jp/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/demos-jp/doc.org/README.JP (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/demos-jp/doc.org/README (.txt) * ext/tk/sample/msgs_rb/README (.txt) * ext/tk/lib/README (.txt) * ext/tk/lib/tkextlib/tkimg/README (.txt) * ext/tk/lib/tkextlib/tcllib/README (.txt) * ext/tk/lib/tkextlib/SUPPORT_STATUS (.txt) * ext/readline/README (.txt) [1]; http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Documentation.html#Documentation -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/