On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 20:39 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:18 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > BTW We now have an official registered mime type "vnd.olpc-sugar" which > > specifies "XO" as the magic key to identify the mime type. At some > > point the PK in the zip header will change to XO. > > Hmm, I was thinking about doing something similar to what OpenDocument > does by storing a mimetype file uncompressed on the root of the archive. > > In this way we can sniff the mime type while retaining full > compatibility with zip files. Also, we can sniff for different kinds of > bundles, if we reserve vnd.olpc-sugar for activity bundles.
That is fine but the magic bit makes it easier for others and doesn't remove compatibility from zip tools. They just spit out a warning. BTW in fedora .ods files are opening up as zip archive. That is clearly wrong. -- John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
