xdg-mime-rs

Changes from 0.3.2

• Switched to dirs-next to replace the now abandoned dirs crate (#24, veeshi)
• Dropped the last few nom macro uses
• Return text/plain for desktop files with no extensions, as a security precaution

Quick bug fix release.

When loading the shared-mime info database from multiple locations we might end up loading the same data. When there are multiple globs matching with the same type, we might end up in a confusing situation, and break the MIME type guessing.

Bugs fixed

• #19: Unable to guess text/turtle type

New stable release, improving the code to be more idiomatic and less "hey, this is the first real Rust project of a C programmer".

Bugs fixed

• #15 - Replace for loops with iterators [Federico Mena Quintero]
• #18 - Fix the name of the crate in the documentation
• #17 - Return the sniffed MIME type in case of conflicts decided by the superclass

This is the first real stable release of the xdg_mime crate.

API changes from 0.2

• The Guess.mime_type method now returns a reference to the mime::Mime instance, instead of a copy.

New features

• The GuessBuilder type acquired new methods to improve the MIME type detection:
• metadata: pass a std::fs::Metadata object of a file; this allows us to detect directories, executable files, or empty files
• path: pass a Path reference to a file; this allows us to automatically fill up the other fields when calling the guess method
• improve content sniffing for files that do not match any glob rule, but are either empty or contain only text
• detect the inode/symlink MIME type

Bug fixes

• We now correctly match magic rules at the same grouping level (#13)

Bug fix release.

Contains a fix in the MIME content matching code which prevented, among other things, to determine the MIME type of shell scripts. See: #13

Another preview release of the xdg_mime crate.

The API is definitely stabler, but I reserve the right to tweak it to
conform to the Rust style guidelines, and especially in light of
feedback received from external users.

New functionality in this release

• added the SharedMimeInfo.reload method, which allows you to reload
  the contents of the shared MIME database, in case it changed. This is
  mostly useful for long-running processes that might end up surviving
  a system update.
• added the SharedMimeInfo.guess_mime_type method, which allows you
  to guess the MIME type of a file or a chunk of data, following the
  appropriate checking algorithm outlined in the shared-mime-info
  specification.
• lots of improvements in the documentation, including examples.

Initial release of the xdg_mime crate.

You should consider this a "preview" release; the API hasn't been
finalized, yet, but I consider this the minimum safe set of symbols to
expose for the time being.

Basic functionality

• load the system shared-mime database
• get the list of possible MIME types for a file name
• get the MIME type for a chunk of data
• compare two MIME types for equality, including aliases
• look up icon names for a given MIME type
• look up all the parent types for a MIME type

Planned future improvements

• better documentation
• more examples
• an implementation of the recommended checking algorithm as
  defined by the shared-mime-info specification
• explicit database reloading
• memory mapped mime.cache support

Further improvements

• MIME type handlers
• accessing the XML data