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

[Martin Aspeli]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thomas Lotze wrote:
>>
>>> - zope.contenttype: parsing of MIME-type identifiers, guessing the MIME
>>>   type of file contents, preferrably without dependencies within the ZTK
>> Can I suggest that we use a different name?
> 
> Please don't!
> 
> We have renamed this package already way too often. This ain't funny anymore:
> 
> try:
>     from zope.contenttype import guess_content_type
> except ImportError: # BBB: Zope < 2.10
>     try:
>         from zope.app.content_types import guess_content_type
>     except ImportError: # BBB: Zope < 2.9
>         from OFS.content_types import guess_content_type

Actually, that is kind of funny. :)

But yeah, renaming is bad. I thought we were making a new package. 
Ignore my suggestion.

Martin

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