WARNING, a users point of view ;) Everything is a file, including a directory.
Being able to view files as directories is not just a nice to have thing. It is actually required if we are going to manage changesets of odf files. Changesets are wonderfultool we have as developers to assist as a community to develop huge complex code. The truth is most people aren't code developers, but document developers. odf files are a container. And it is handy for users to see them as just a single file. But just about just about every program or script would be better off seening the odf as a compressed directory. Yes it would be really wonderful, if we could just see directories as file and files as directories. Which of course means a file and a directory are one in the same. As things stand now the way forward seams to be per application program mime types. Simple right, but it is not because, applications tools like svn, brz, darcs, etc. Can't understand that directory checked is just a odf file. For the basic rule of a file is a directory and a directory is a file to be true. Directories need to have mime types too. =========================== My question =========================== How should directory mime types be recorded? What is the standard? -Tim. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
