On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:09:23 +0300, Roman V. Nikolaev wrote: > Hello. I add all current mime types from Debian`s /etc/mime.types and > send patch to author. It`s applied in 1.29.
Great, thanks! > This module authtor (Mark Overmeer) writes about /etc/mime.types: > > No, I do register all types... however... I should spend more time > in collecting them. The recent years, I only add types when people > explicitly ask me to. > > MIME::Types is system independent, so cannot depend on /etc/mime.types. > It should be rewritten to be more lazy: the table size is exploding. > Translating every line in an object to start with is too expensive. > It's on my (long) list of plans. Right, we've had this dicussion before, cf. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=165940 So closing this bug is not the right way to go IMO for the time being; maybe Mark finds the time to change the module at some point. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Kurt Ostbahn & Die Kombo: Geht da daham wos o
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