[openbeos] Re: question about dos filesystem and mime types
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:35:39 +0200 CEST
> "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Marcus Overhagen <marcusoverhagen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Extensions and alias entries should probably stored in a hash
> > > > table, for fast access.
> > Doesn't the existing mime db already supports multiple extentions
> > for
> > the same mime ? (by adding BMessages, but maybe it's not
> > efficiently
> > parsed ?)
>
> Yes, it does. It still makes sense to have, for example, audio/x-mpeg
> and audio/mpeg point to the same actual MIME type, and maintain only
> a
> single set of extensions and further attributes.
> That would make the MIME system much more flexible and stronger at
> the
> same time.
Right.
Maybe we should share our mime db with the freedesktop project ?
They maintain a mime db with parsing rules and other stuff...
François.
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