[Zope-dev] Proposal: cleaning up the content-type story

[Adam GROSZER]

Hello,

That sounds impressing.

Definitely something to watch in the refactoring process is having all
this working on win32 ;-)

Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:11:10 PM, you wrote:

HS> For mime type information it looks at:

HS> - all information found in the
HS> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info database
HS> - magic codes based on gnome-vfs-mime-magic
HS> - information form the Apache mime.types (local copy so it works on Windows)
HS> - respects zope.contenttype and Python's mimetypes module
HS> - on Windows respects the information found in the registry at
HS> "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type"
HS> - a couple of its own definitions (for example Markdown, Textile, SVG,
HS> new MS Office formats not yet present in the other sources)

HS> If someone really wants to extend the functionality, this package
HS> might be worth a look. The whole persistent registry idea of
HS> MimeTypesRegistry is overkill, but most of the other code should have
HS> little or no external dependencies and should be good after a bit of
HS> refactoring.

HS> Hanno
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