Serialized Lua Table Format

[oeed]

Whilst this is a fairly well known format it is still important that these details are standardised.

The format must be readable using textutils.unserialise or running the file, but it doesn't necessarily have to be made using textutils.serialise (i.e. you can strip the spacing, new lines, etc.)

These details are open for suggestion.

Extensions: .tbl
MIME: text/table

[viluon]

I would use text/lua-table or application/lua-table. We aren't dealing with furniture. Plus, the *.ltbl extension should be added to the list imo.

[oeed]

I'm cool with application/lua-table, although I'm not overly keen with .ltbl quite yet.

[lyqyd]

This would be why I'd suggest using lua/data.

[oeed]

I'd agree with @lyqyd re lua/data.

How about just .data for the extension too?

"data" doesn't seem nearly specific enough.

I think text/lua-table is pretty good. And then for an extension, it seems fairly obvious to be, but .table or .tbl seems like a good extension.

[oeed]

As mentioned by Lyqyd in #18, I think Lua/data or /table would be best. I'd also agree with .table

Lua/table with .table extension.

That seems like it would work quite nicely actually. 👍

[viluon]

I'd go with both *.tbl and *.table. Lua/table is a good idea 👍

[oeed]

I'm not so sure that we should be recommending two extensions for a newly proposed format. We're not using Windows 3.1 anymore 😉