gEDA-dev: gEDA + PCB Mime types?

[Peter Clifton]

It seems that gEDA and PCB need some MIME types registering, and I
suspect that the gEDA "organisation" qualifies for the vnd. tree of
registrations.

http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl

We'll need to do a bit of work to get things rolling, but I think this
will benefit us in the long run in terms of desktop integration.


text/vnd.geda.schematic
ext: sch
magic: ??

text/vnd.geda.symbol
ext: sym
magic: ??

text/vnd.geda.pcb-layout
ext: pcb
magic: ??

text/vnd.geda.pcb-footprint
ext: fp
magic: ??

text/rs-274x (gerber?)
ext: gbr (others?)
magic: ??

(This is a recognised standard, so probably gets a "proper" standard
MIME type, but requires a standard to be published, and a more formal
aprovals process. This may have to be done by / via the standards body
which ratified the RS-274X standard.)

Does anyone think its a good idea to try and register these mime-types
with IANA officially?

Is anyone willing to help me do any necessary leg work?

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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