.. _namingconvention:

File naming convention
==========================

The structure files in a given folder
---------------------------------------

For the sake of clarity, we put the structure definitions in separate files.
It's a good way to organize your rougail structures this way,
in the real world we need separate files for different topics.

For example some files like this:

A file named :file:`firefox/00-proxy.yml` structure file and file named :file:`firefox/10-manual.yml`

::

    .
    └── firefox
        ├── 00-proxy.yml
        └── 10-manual.yml

.. note:: We of course could have put everything in one file.
          Again, it is better to separate the structures in different files 
          for reasons of ordering and clarity.

Ordering your structure files
--------------------------------

The order in which files are loaded is important in Rougail. 
In a given folder, files are loaded in alphabetical order.

Furthermore, for better readability of the order in which files are 
loaded into a folder, we have adopted a convention. 
To facilitate classification, we have defined a standard notation for structure file names:

::

    XX-<name>.yml

Where `XX` is a two digits integer followed by an hyphen, and `<name>` is a name that describes 
the structure that is in this file. We advise you to adopt this convention as well.

Moreover, it is preferable to only use lowercase ASCII letters, numbers and the `"_"` (undescore) character. 
The snake case typographic convention is therefore used.
