[Scons-dev] mimetypes: adding mimetype for scons scripts
Carnë Draug
carandraug+dev at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 08:28:22 EST 2015
On 21 January 2015 at 13:15, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> >>> scons [1] is a build system and I was thinking of adding it to
>> >>> shared-mime-info. Its files are very simple to identify, they are
>> >>> always named SConstruct or SConscript. These files are also valid
>> >>> python scripts.
>> >>>
>> >>> Should shared-mime-info identify them (I can submit a git patch, no
>> >>> problem)
>
>
> This seems like an easy thing to add, with some possible upside and no
> downside. So why not, I say. Carnë, I think it would be better for you to
> add it to shared-mime-info; SCons could do it but (a) it would be more
> complex, and (b) it wouldn't identify SConstructs when SCons isn't
> installed.
>
Yes. shared-mime-info seems to agree with, they only need acceptance from
scons developers:
On 20 January 2015 at 18:32, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If a text/x-scons mime type is defined and accepted by the SCons devs,
> it would then be a sub-type of text/x-python.
> J. Leclanche
So unless someone opposes I will submit a patch to shared-mime-info.
Regarding
On 21 January 2015 at 01:28, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> SConstruct is a required name, but SConscript is not even though it may be
> the standard/convention. The subscripts can use any name you like
> technically. I usually include the "*.py" extension so that language
> bindings in editors work without setting changes.
what if the magic uses the following globs for filenames "SConstruct",
"SConscript", and "SConscript.*" ?
Carnë
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