Re: Ada sources MIME type

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:01:08 +0100, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)  
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry, not a main target topic. I've noticed after GNAT was installed in  
> Ubuntu, it seems it added a MIME type for Ada sources (good, or may be  
> it was there before, I do not know). The MIME type is defined to be  
> “x-adasrc” and its parent type is defined as “text/plain”. Looks nice,  
> but the same way all C derived languages defines “text/x-csrc” as their  
> parent type (whose parent is in turn “text/plain”, obviously), I was  
> thinking this may be more nice to define the parent type of “x-adasrc”  
> as “x-pascal” (which already exists in the default MIME data base).
Also, C sources MIME type makes distinction between implementation and  
specification (C and H files), while there is actually even not really  
such a thing in C. Ada really has this, and its MIME type makes no  
distinction (we can't accept this any longer [*]). So I suggest anyone  
able to push, will try to push/promote/enforce this: promote a  
"text/x-ada-spec" and an "text/x-ada-body" MIME types for Ada source  
files. For integration in Unicies systems using a file type detection  
based on the file content, we should not rely on file extension, as this  
is vendor specific (although this could be used as a fall-back, at least  
on Windows), and instead rely on this: if the file contains a "^package  
body .*$" then it is a text/x-ada-body, and if it contains a "^package  
[A-Z].*$" (which should cover most of cases) then it is a text/x-ada-spec







[*] I wanted to play the fool a bit with this post wordings.

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