application/x-perl vs text/x-perl

[David Faure]

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On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:42, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:39, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know the difference between these 2 mimetypes?  A "Perl
> > Program" is also a "Perl Source File" after all...I don't see the need for
> > a distinction between the two, nor the distinction itself.
> >
> > And to make things worse, they have overlapping patterns:
> > application/x-perl: Patterns=*.pl;*.perl;
> > tex/x-perl: Patterns=*.pl;*.pm;
> 
> The key is in the last line.  .pm == Perl Module != Perl program.  A .pl is 
> often also a Perl 4 style collection of fucntions with no "main".  So, 
> potentially these two could be consolidated into "Perl Source File" but not 
> the other way around.

Yes but we definitely can't have the same pattern (*.pl) in two mimetypes.

The shared mime database on freedesktop.org only defines application/x-perl BTW:
freedesktop.org.xml:  <mime-type type="application/x-perl">

with
    <glob pattern="*.pl"/>
    <glob pattern="*.perl"/>

(and magic looking at the first line)

*.pm could be application/x-perl-module IMHO.

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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