Re: Abiword executable name

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 21:58:39 EDT

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     --- Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote: >
    On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 09:08, Håvard Wigtil wrote:
    > > I'm trying clean up the mime types for Abiword in
    > Gnome.
    >
    > That would be text/abiword IIRC.

    Doesn't it need to be text/x-abiword or somesuch for
    non-official mime types?

    Andrew Dunbar.

    > > One problem is that there is some confusion on
    > what the executable name
    > > should be. IIRC, in older releases there used to
    > be in /usr/bin an
    > > "AbiWord" link to the executable, where as recent
    > releases only ship
    > > with an "abiword" link. (And the link is not part
    > of the files listed in
    > > the RPM, which is IMHO bad.)
    >
    > The link is there, just try to do: rpm -q abiword
    > --scripts
    > Besides, a user that would be confused with that,
    > probably doesn't even
    > know how to do rpm -ivh file.rpm.
    >
    > > Alex Larson seemed to remember a statement to the
    > effect that you would
    > > always ship a "AbiWord" binary or link.
    > >
    >
    http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-vfs/2002-March/001142.html
    >
    > I did not ever hear such, if that was the intention,
    > I had no idea.
    >
    > > So what's the official policy on this? If the
    > official policy is to only
    > > ship "abiword", when was the last release shipped
    > with an "AbiWord"
    > > link? And do you remember if previous releases
    > shipped with both
    > > "abiword" and "AbiWord"?
    >
    > I don't think there's any need for both, and lower
    > case strings is the
    > standard (real standard or de facto? I don't know)
    > for unix aplications.
    >
    > Hugs, rms
    >
    > --
    > + No matter how much you do, you never do enough --
    > unknown
    > + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
    > | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
    > + So let's do it...?
    >

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