[Rd] shared-mime-info (PR#8278)

[p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk]

Vaidotas Zemlys <mpiktas at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On 04 Nov 2005 13:51:56 +0100, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> 
> > One further thought about this:
> >
> > On SUSE,
> >
> > rpm -qif /usr/share/mime/
> >
> > points at
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo
> >
> > So I guess that the proper tree to bark at is the upstreams
> > maintainers of
> >
> > http://freedesktop.org/~jrb/shared-mime-info-*.tar.gz
> >
> > Instructions there say to submit new XML files to
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=shared-mime-info&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
> >
> > It would likely be a good idea to send them first to R-devel for review.
> >
> 
> I already barked at upstream. The upstream barked back. The result is here:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1782

Aha... This is pretty weird, in light of the prescription on the website:

<<
Shared MIME database package

The core database and the update-mime-database program for extending
it are available from the [WWW]software pages.

If you have added types that should go in the common freedesktop.org
base list of types, you should create an enhancement request on
[WWW]the MIME bugtracker with your new XML file.
>>

If the procedure is different, perhaps we should ask them what it is?
I don't think we have a real problem with maintaining a "freedesktop"
subdir somewhere in the sources since it appears to cover quite a wide
range of systems, but we don't seem to know what to do with it.

The procedure appears to be different between Linuxen: On SUSE, I get

viggo:~/>rpm -qf /usr/share/mime/text/x-texinfo.xml
shared-mime-info-0.15.cvs20050321-3

whereas FC4 has

[pd at janus ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/share/mime/text/x-texinfo.xml
file /usr/share/mime/text/x-texinfo.xml is not owned by any package

(and likewise 60-odd other .xml files). So it seems that SUSE collects
all this stuff in a single RPM and FC4 lets it be handled by the
post-install mechanism (on each package or by "exploding"
freedesktop.org.xml ??)
 
> There you can find xml file for R scripts. I've made it from some
> example. It is really only a proof of a concept. But it would not be
> very difficult to produce xml files for mimetypes of all R related
> files. We must only decide which R related files would benefit from
> having mimetypes.
> 
> My proposal is
> 1. R source code, R scripts. Files with extensions .R, .r and others
> (.q?, .s?, .S?). Mimetypes text/x-R, text/x-Rsrc

My inclination would be to stick with .R, possibly adding .r to guard
against Windows case-folding issues, but .r used to be Ratfor files.
.q/.s/.S are used by some people supporting both R and S-PLUS, but I
don't think they care how such files are displayed by Nautilus and
Konqueror... 

> 2. R documentation files. File extension .Rd. Mimetype text/x-Rd

OK, modulo case-fold

> 3. RData files. File extension .RData, files which at beginning have
> RDX2. Mimetype application/x-RData.

Why the RDX2 bit?? We do have .RDA from windows, too. 


> 4. Rhistory files. File extension .Rhistory. Mimetype text/x-Rhistory

OK.

> 5. R transcript files from ESS/Emacs. File extension .Rt. Mimetype
> text/x-Rtranscript

.Rout, please. Also .Rout.save and .Rout.fail. (And it's not just
ESS that creates them).

Also

6. Rprofile files .Rprofile or Rprofile.

> The relevant xml code could be pushed upstream to end up in
> freedesktop.org.xml, or it could be distributed with R linux package,
> and installed into relevant subdirectory of /usr/share/mime. With a
> bit more work the result could be, that people using for example
> Nautilus (graphical Gnome browser) could see R related files displayed
> with R logo, and clicking them could result in various appropriate
> actions. For example for .RData R process could be iinvoked and
> relevant .RData file could be loaded.

Some fun potential with gedit/Kate plugins too (ESS for the 21st
century anyone?)

> I could write and test the xml code. But first we have to agree on
> which files benefit from having mimetypes and how the mimetypes should
> be named. Feel free to suggest.


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