Re: [Beaver-devel] MIME type detection library

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> in tools.c:997 you write:
>
> "What would be super-cool is a library that determined mime types [...],
> but not tied to a specific platform."
>
> Want to start a project like this?
> I guess it'd be quite interesting.

It would be interesting.

I've been lurking on the xdg (freedesktop.org) mailing lists for a 
while, and one of the major contributors to the current mime type spec 
is Thomas Leonard, writer of ROX-Filer.  It is DE-agnostic, and thus has 
its own internal library for mime types according to spec.  That would 
be a good place to start, if one were interested in not starting from 
scratch.

But, I'm not particularly interested in getting too involved in such an 
endeavor.  I just don't have the time.  But, if you were to go forward 
with it, I could help a bit.

-mt

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