Shared-mime checking order

[Alexander Larsson]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:18 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 00:51 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > > If several globs matches, and sniffing fails, or doesn't help:
> > > >   fall back to the first glob match
> > > >   (maybe we should do something better here?)
> > >
> > > Hmm, I just found the case of "README.txt", which could either be "text/plain" due to *.txt
> > > or "text/x-readme" due to README*. Which one should we pick? The second pattern "looks"
> > > more specific to my eyes so it should probably win, but how should we quantify that?
> > > Should we take the longest pattern?
> >
> > Yeah, this is tricky. I think the longest pattern is the traditional way
> > to solve things like that. It will probably work good enought for us.
> 
> Isn't just enough to check if either of them is the subclass of the
> second? If so, pick the more specific one.

That only works in the case of subclasses though, which might not always
be the case. Seems right to use that when its possible though.