jmirtsch / GitIFCPrototype

First Public prototype of Git IFC Folder based serialization
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Proposal: using ".ifc.json" file extension instead of ".ifcjson" #5

Open tomas-polach opened 7 years ago

tomas-polach commented 7 years ago

Thank you for initiating this projects. This does seriously lower the entrance barriers for software engineers not familiar with IFC and clearly empowers interdisciplinary projects!

I would like to like to make a humble proposal: using .ifc.json as file extension instead of .ifcjson.

My considerations are:

jmirtsch commented 7 years ago

Sure, I'm happy to do that and will push some new commits shortly. Part of the reason for choosing .ifcjson was following suite with the .ifcxml (http://www.buildingsmart-tech.org/downloads/accompanying-documents/guidelines/ifcXML%20Implementation%20Guide%20v2-0.pdf) but this can be reviewed in the event of Building Smart officially defining json as an official serialization of ifc (which they might use .ifc.json anyway).