On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote: > On Jan 24, 2011, at 02:01, Tim Cuthbertson wrote: > >> If not, does anyone have any suggestions? I've no idea how these >> things are agreed upon, but how about I throw "application/x-rubygem" >> out there for starters… > > There's two files to deal with, .gem files and .gemspec files which are > usually deflated.  How about: > > application/x-ruby-gem > application/x-ruby-gemspec-deflate
If I understand correctly, a gemspec is the contents of metadata.gz in the .gem tar-file. Do gemspecs get distributed outside of a .gem file? If not, they probably don't need to have their own mime-type. But if they do, then yes that sounds like a good idea to have both. Cheers, - Tim. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
