On Thu 17 Jan 2013 09:17, Nala Ginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:46 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: >> It would be nice to use >> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec on free >> software systems. > > Are you suggesting use mime-info of freedesktop? I think we can write a > parser for that XML files, but it makes Guile depends on desktop. > Did I miss something?
That is a specification of where files live on disk and what meaning they have. So the thing that your module would have to do would be to parse those files, and fall back on some other mechanism if those files are unavailable. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
