Media type for output of POSIX "diff" utility
Julian Reschke
julian.reschke at gmx.de
Thu May 31 15:29:29 CEST 2007
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
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