[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] .egg media type?

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Thu Jun 30 19:51:56 CEST 2005


Fred Drake wrote:
> On 6/27/05, Ryan Tomayko <rtomayko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>The "+xml" suffix is the only suffixing scheme at IANA and is
>>normatively defined in the RFC 3023 XML Media Types [1]. The section
>>linked to below contains justification for inventing the suffixing
>>scheme, which is almost as interesting as it is amusing. :)
> 
> 
> The "XML is the first generic data format that has seemed to justify
> special treatment" (A.14) in certainly humorous, especially given the
> context of this discussion.
> 
> I'm firmly in the "application/egg+zip" camp at this point.

But shouldn't that be application/x-egg+zip ?

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