Media type for output of POSIX "diff" utility

[Julian Reschke]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> This sounds like a good idea to me.  Gnus has used text/x-patch for a
> long time for this purpose.  I suspect this has been influenced from
> older tools, and Gnus usage has possibly also influenced more recent
> tools.

So would you suggest to stick with "text/x-diff", and just register 
that, or would you prefer "text/diff"?

>> - Would it make sense to define individual types for the different
>> diff output formats (simple, context, ...), or would that be something
>> for a type parameter?
> 
> I don't believe that doing either (i.e., neither type parameter nor
> multiple media types) will serve the goal of interoperability well.

In which case we'll have to explicitly list which flavors of diff 
outputs the media type includes...

Best regards, Julian