Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> writes:
Simon Josefsson wrote:
This sounds like a good idea to me. Gnus has used text/x-patch for a long time for this purpose. I suspect this has been influenced from older tools, and Gnus usage has possibly also influenced more recent tools.
So would you suggest to stick with "text/x-diff", and just register that, or would you prefer "text/diff"?
I don't think you can register text/x-diff, can you? x-* is reserved for non-standard media types. I think we should standardize either text/diff or text/patch. Even though the name 'diff' denotes the tool, 'patch' may be somewhat more descriptive, and there is existing deployment of text/x-patch. I'm not sure which to prefer.
- Would it make sense to define individual types for the different diff output formats (simple, context, ...), or would that be something for a type parameter?
I don't believe that doing either (i.e., neither type parameter nor multiple media types) will serve the goal of interoperability well.
In which case we'll have to explicitly list which flavors of diff outputs the media type includes...
Yes. /Simon