On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:32 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > application seemed like it might fit, but we would also qualify for > > text. > > If we start talking about projects-as-files (zip or tar.gz), or > compressed files, or some binary representation of a text file[1], > then we're back to application. > > [1] At a previous job, we used pcb's resource format for data. > Converting it to a binary representation increased parsing speed > by a HUGE factor, since the binary file pre-indicated the array > and string sizes. We had a simple utility to convert between > ascii and binary as needed, but the default format was the binary > one.
Wouldn't we need two different mime-types for that? I agree text or application would fit, and that we should probably seek advice from someone familiar with the registration process. If we were to consider zipped archive files at some future time (or give a special type for garchive output?), then perhaps we might want them all to be application/vnd.geda.______ DJ, other PCB people... do you object to PCB using the same vnd.geda. namespace? (The DBus path uses the namespace "org.seul.geda.pcb" at the moment, and no-one noticed / complained!) Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
