libsharedmime 0.5 review

libsharedmime is a library for reading freedesktop.org's shared MIME database. Installation: All that should be required to ins

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 17K Developer: Matthew Allen

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libsharedmime is a library for reading freedesktop.org's shared MIME database.

Installation:

All that should be required to install this is:

make
make install

Which will put 'libsharedmime1.so' into /usr/local/lib and 'mime-types.h' into /usr/local/include.

ToDo:

Fix the makefile to have proper dependency handling.
Write a ./configure script.
Write some docs.
Finish the other API functions (what do they actually do?).
Test some more. "Works for me".

What's New in This Release:
Added code to check for a text file if the content lookup fails, if it matches it gets a 'text/plain' type.
Stopped the content lookup being performed on directories.
Fixed a bug in the magic matching code that caused valid matches to fail. This means that some files will now return the correct mime type as opposed to a default "not found" type.