shared-mime-info test program: mimebreaker
Jonathan Blandford
jrb at redhat.com
Mon May 24 23:54:42 EEST 2004
david at davemalcolm.demon.co.uk writes:
> In the hope of improving the shared-mime-info database, I've written a
> test program that reads a freedestop.org.xml file, and tries to
> generate byte sequences that will match multiple sniff patterns.
This is pretty neat! It shows that there are a lot of overlapping
patterns in our database, though in practice I'm not sure there's much
we can do about them. It's probably worth checking this into CVS
anyway, I'm sure we can do something constructive with it.
Thanks,
-Jonathan
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