Re: [Rosegarden-devel] File loading change

[Guillaume L. <gla...@te...>]

On Friday 20 February 2004 09:29, Chris Cannam wrote:
> >
> > - announce with the next release that you need to load and resave
> > your files with this release
>
> I don't entirely understand why this step is necessary.  Can't we
> continue to "recognise" any file with a .rg or .rgd extension as a
> Rosegarden file, and additionally use the mime type to recognise
> files that don't have such an extension?

Not as far as I can see. A mime type relies either on the extension or on 
magic-lookup of the file contents, these are mutually exclusive.

> (Will it continue to be possible to load a Rosegarden file that does
> not have a .rg extension and does not have a magic mime type, by
> naming it on the command line?

Of course, what I'm trying to fix is precisely to have this same behavior when 
loading an RG file from the GUI, which is currently not the case.

> if we do, then it may make it more acceptable to
> "suggest" that people re-save their files with an intermediate
> version, since they won't have lost them beyond the reach of a simple
> bit of troubleshooting.  In that case I could maybe accept a plan to
> make every version from here to 0.9.9.x or 1.0-pre-x accept non-magic
> files in the file dialog and just pop up a dialog warning you about
> their non-magic-ness, and then turn that off before 1.0.

That's doable.

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