[interfacekit] Re: __mime_table
- From: "Cedric Degea" <cdegea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:15:39 +0200
>> This lingering-old-apps problem is a little annoying; a
>> couple years ago I used to be anal with my mime database
>> and go Delete (living dangerously..) some entries that
>> seemed obsolete, now I don't bother any more, waiting
>I wonder how to solve this problem. When walking through the FS the
>registrar could as collect the app signatures it finds and remove all
>others from the database. But I'm not sure, if this effect is always
>desired. Just think of apps on removable media. E.g. a game on CD and
>the game states saved on HD -- inserting the CD and double-clicking the
>saved game won't work, when the registrar remove the game app before.
>Maybe that example is a bit artificial. Mmh, then imagine a network
>with applications on a server...
Now that we discuss this, reminds me of "revenge of the mutant
mime types" on bebits, was written by C. Herborth I think,
or somewhat related to the "MIME police" :-), just wondering
if it was not doing just what is described here.
As you said, it'd have to be launched by hand, not too often,
and configured to avoid some types.... might as well try
and make the MIME code optimized so that extra entries do
not slow it down (!!) and be left alone, to simplify it all,
me thinks. It would be getting over the top otherwise.
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