Re: [Docutils-develop] Issue #169 Hyperlink extension rewriting

Dear John,

thank you for the patch proposal.

On 2020-08-19, John L. Clark wrote:
> A week ago I posted a new issue to the patch tracker:
><https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/169/>.  I wanted to bring
> it to the attention of this mailing list, because the automated email
> that the tracker sends to this list was put in a moderation queue.  I
> don't know what the status of that moderation is.  I noted after I
> posted the patch that I didn't remove a debugging line; I'm happy to
> submit an updated or additional patch as desired, but even more than
> that I am eager to discuss the change.

Some first thoughts after a glance at the patch:

I like the general idea but would rename "update_filename_extension()" to
"map_filename_extension()".

The setting should also work for other writers (LaTeX, ODT, at least). 

The test framework allows overwriting config settings, so it should be
possible to test with different settings.
A unit test is more lightwight, runs faster as a functional test
and should suffice.

The change to buildhtml is unrelated, should not be bundled here and
discussed separately.


Thanks,

Günter