On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 11:06 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > 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. >
I see, it's easy to do that with parsing 'mime/glob', and more generic. To avoid parse this file each time, it's necessary to write a cache mechanism. Besides, I think a filename parser to checkout its mime could also be added. PS: Do you think it's proper to use the same implementation in my server project? I'm not sure whether this mime thing would exist in any GNU system for a server purpose rather than a desktop one. > Cheers, > > Andy
