On Jun 16, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Sean McBride wrote:

On 6/15/09 12:36 AM, Mitchell Livingston said:

Thanks for that. I am dealing with .torrent extensions. I have the UTI defined as "org.bittorrent.torrent". Both apps are using the same file
format, so there shouldn't be a problem with a single UTI.

OK, you're in a not-so-bad situation then.  The best you can do is
contact as many authors of torrent apps as you can, and agree upon a
common declaration.  Or maybe there already is one, did you search?

None of the apps I found have it set up in the Info.plist. From users with the problem I've discovered they have it set up as "com.bittorrent.torrent". Perhaps I should just change it to that, but that's not future-proof enough incase another program decides to define a different UTI for it. No matter who I contact, if one app sets it to something different, this functionally breaks. Since the torrent file format is standard, Apple declaring it would be by far the safest thing, and pretty much the only thing that would make me remove the extension check (instead of just checking UTI).


It would be
great if Apple included this in the OS, although is there a chance
considering their stance on torrent files? It is a legitimate file
format, regardless.

I wasn't aware they had a stance on this format.  Do you have a
reference?  I think you should file a bug regardless.

I have reported the bug already. I assume they have a stance because an iPhone front-end for torrents was rejected, and they won't place our app on the Mac OS X software download page.


I'm not sure how to use the rdar links - am I missing something
obvious? I will file a bug on Apple Bug Reporter.

You can't see my bugs, but you can reference them in your own bugs.


Will do.

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada



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