[Development] Mime database size

[Arnaud Vrac]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:11 PM, David Faure <david.faure at kdab.com> wrote:

> On Monday 23 February 2015 12:00:51 Knoll Lars wrote:
> > Yes, I still don’t like the fact we’re embedding a 1.7M xml file in Qt
> > Core at all. I’m not too fond of checking the binary file into the
> > repositories, but it’s probably still better than continuing with the XML
> > file.
>
> Yes. The binary file would be 109KB, much smaller already.
>
> > David, I can’t see how the use case of the app installing additional mime
> > types is supported today (as there is no API to register additional XML
> > files or anything like that.
>
> Trust me (or read the unit test), it works :-)
> Additional XML files are found by looking at the filesystem,
> QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation + "mime/packages/", as per the mime
> spec.
>
>
That's true, but the binary file in QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation +
"mime/mime.cache" should have been rebuilt with those additional XML files.


> > So I can’t see how embedding the binary blob
> > instead of the XML file will give us a feature regression today.
>
> See previous email. Can be fixed, of course, but it's a bit more effort
> (I won't have time in the near future, but maybe later....).


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Arnaud Vrac
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