Shared-mime checking order

[Alexander Larsson]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:37 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 08:35 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:03 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > > 
> > > > We should also make sure that we add all possible conflicting extension
> > > > matches to the database. For instace, if we add "*.pdf" to
> > > > application/x-gzpdf then we could use sniffing to resolve which one it
> > > > is. 
> > > 
> > > I agree. My unit test for the *.doc conflict-resolving shows that "*.doc" should
> > > be added to the glob patterns for text/plain, for instance.
> > > Do you have access for making changes to the specification and to the shared-mime database, btw? (I don't)
> > 
> > I think i have write access, but at the very least i know some people
> > who have that i can badger if if turns our I don't. Have you made any of
> > these changes and would like me to apply them?
> 
> I should probably have mentioned that before, but there's now a test
> suite in shared-mime-info CVS courtesy of Matthias Clasen. You'll need
> to have xdgmime checked out and compile at the same level as
> shared-mime-info. Running make in CVS will run the test suite.
> 
> All changes to the freedesktop.org.xml.in file should have the an entry
> in the test suite.
> 
> I'll update the HACKING file to reflect that.

Hmmm. I started working on a test for this change, but its a bit tricky.
The change doesn't really affect anything in the current tests, one has
to add a textfile.doc and try to detect that as a textfile. However,
text/plain has no *.doc match yet, so that doesn't do anything. And if I
add that to text/plain then the xdgmime code seems to fail due to the
conflict, as it only returns application/octet-stream for the name test.

I guess we need to update the xdgmime matching code with the changes
we're talking about in the mime spec. But we need to make sure everyone
agrees first.