Should folder names start with a period?

Question

Are there any recommendations or standards for folder names starting from the period? (ex: .NET). I have an installer that requires this to happen, and right now we are using "DotNET" instead of ".NET" for our folder names.

Thank!

Answer 1

There are no such recommendations in the Windows world.

On unix / linux environments, any file or directory starting with. default is a hidden file / directory.

Answer 2

, , . , - Mono-, , unix/linux/GNU , , .

Answer 3

, '.' (Unix, Linux, Mac OS X). Windows . , , '.' .

Answer 4

, ; , Unix Linux, . Windows System .

Answer 5

Watch for it; although you can create them programmatically, you cannot create such a file using Windows Explorer. After trying to rename the folder to ".net" in Windows7, he complained that I did not provide the file name. Thus, this means that users and developers may have problems. This is probably not worth doing.

Microsoft installs the framework in \ windows \ Microsoft.Net, so you can use it instead.