William Immendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:40 PM, dean talbot <[email protected]> wrote: > > What could be a show-stopper, though, is the fact that the > > XZ-definitions were only added to shared-mime-info's CVS-repo in > > April and haven't been in an official release yet - so unless you > > want to patch that package or build it from CVS, things like GUI > > file-managers won't know what the hell they're looking at, let > > alone how to deal with them... > > > > ...Which they're unlikely to be able to do anyway, because the GUI > > archivers i've looked at don't use shared-mime-info, they instead > > need to be patched to support this 'fledgling' file-type directly.
> 'Fledgling'? Are you kidding me?!?!! The XZ file format is stable now: > > http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt > > William I didn't say otherwise - in fact, i endorsed that fact by acknowledging it's inclusion in 'shared-mime-info'... ...I was simply pointing out that as of this moment, system-wide support for the format hasn't filtered down from the development sources to the release stages that most people use, and as such, i think it's still a little too early to make widespread use of. Dean -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
