On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 09:08, H�vard Wigtil wrote:
> I'm trying clean up the mime types for Abiword in Gnome.

That would be text/abiword IIRC.

> One problem is that there is some confusion on what the executable name
> should be. IIRC, in older releases there used to be in /usr/bin an
> "AbiWord" link to the executable, where as recent releases only ship
> with an "abiword" link. (And the link is not part of the files listed in
> the RPM, which is IMHO bad.)

The link is there, just try to do: rpm -q abiword --scripts
Besides, a user that would be confused with that, probably doesn't even
know how to do rpm -ivh file.rpm.

> Alex Larson seemed to remember a statement to the effect that you would
> always ship a "AbiWord" binary or link. 
> http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-vfs/2002-March/001142.html

I did not ever hear such, if that was the intention, I had no idea.

> So what's the official policy on this? If the official policy is to only
> ship "abiword", when was the last release shipped with an "AbiWord"
> link? And do you remember if previous releases shipped with both
> "abiword" and "AbiWord"?

I don't think there's any need for both, and lower case strings is the
standard (real standard or de facto? I don't know) for unix aplications.

Hugs, rms

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