Dale Worley wrote:
>>From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
>>
>>
>>
>>>text/x-c; charset=us-ascii
>>>
>>>
>>Well, this is clearly wrong, there's no such thing as a
>>"text/x-c" mime type.
>>
>>
>
>It seems to me that that is an overly strict interpretation. The MIME standard intends that one may use "private definition" subtypes starting with "x-" (RFC 1341, section 4, near the top of page 7). (And that is in harmony with many other places where one may use a token starting with "x-" in place of a standardized token.) For a source control system, I can see the advantage of being able to specify each programming language as a different subtype of text/*.
>
>
Certainly, if Subversion were a source control system, but not in
svn:mime-type. MIME was simply not designed for this purpose. I know
it's been abused for such things, but that doesn't mean we have to
continue this practice. Encoding the eimplementation language in the
MIME type would be wrong, just as encoding the language used in a
document would be wrong.
And there's no need for such overloading; after all, you can set
arbitrary properties in Subversion, and one of them might well be the
programming language used in the file.
But since Subversion is a version control system, not a source control
system, this kind of property doesn't really belong in the core feature set.
-- Brane
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Received on Fri Apr 1 18:15:01 2005