Shared-mime checking order

[Patryk Zawadzki]

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.

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Patryk Zawadzki
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