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Signed-off-by: Antonio Murdaca <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Murdaca <[email protected]>
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@mtrmac please review and merge |
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I’m not happy with the Is it practical to push back? |
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fixing skopeo ... |
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@mtrmac They are actually called Media Types. I'm not sure if you've actually read RFC2046, but the title is actually "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types" and goes on to define a series of Media Types. While these can be used with MIME, there is no such thing as a "MIME Type". The term "Media Type" is used consistently throughout the container standards and specifications. |
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@stevvooe Of course the RFC introducing the concept of types to MIME predates their widespread usage outside of MIME, and thus was fine with using a generic name which has a specific meaning within its own context and found it unnecessary to use a self-referential name, I stand by my opinion that on the wide internet, saying “MIME type” is specific and “media type” may be something else like a fourCC code in RIFF/MPEG containers (and using "media” to refer to filesystem tarballs is awkward). Anyway, this has been merged. |
@mtrmac PTAL