Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Fixing the shared-mime-info debacle

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:38:17AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer, 2009-05-13 at 08:29 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > The current mime.cache version, according to the spec, is
> > 1.1 but my /usr/share/mime.cache seems to still be 1.0:
> > 
> > hexdump /usr/share/mime/mime.cache  |head -n1
> > 0000000 0100 0100 0000 d441 0000 d046 0000 0c56
> 
> Uh, oh, wait, the version is on 16 bit, so I indeed have 1.1, which is
> then not used at all by thunar. So we're kind-of safe for the moment,
> but at one point the check should be added to be able to read 1.1 files.
> Though I'm not sure changing the filename is a good idea, and yeah, why
> not putting the version check in the code so apps can use “old” and
> “new” formats?
> 
> Cheers,

As already said, the whole format is already versioned by definition, so the proper
fix is - at application level - supporting both formats. Changing file
name is NOT a proper fix, is a bad/pointless workaround for badly written programs.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine