Support for dynamic UTIs

[Craig Buchek]

I reinstalled Mavericks, and now my UTI for .md files (as reported by mdls) is dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a. According to this article on UTIs, that translates to ?0=6:1=md, which means UTTypeConformsTo= public.data:public.filename-extension=md.

Long story short, adding dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a to the Info.plist makes it work.

[Samuel Dillow]

I haven't looked into dynamic UTIs yet. Are you saying that I just add that to the .plist in the next release, or are dynamic UTIs something we have to look at supporting... dynamically?

[Craig Buchek]

Yeah, we can just add to the plist, and it'll work. According to the referenced article (and this Stack Overflow entry), dynamic UTIs are based on the file extension, so they won't change.

Submitting a pull request for this momentarily.

[Samuel Dillow]

Cool. Thanks. I'll be happy to merge that in.

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Craig Buchek [e-mail]:

Yeah, we can just add to the plist, and it'll work. According to the
referenced article (and this Stack Overflow entryhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/8003919/are-dynamic-utis-stable,
dynamic UTIs are based on the file extension, so they won't change.

Submitting a pull request for this momentarily.

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[Samuel Dillow]

I wonder if this could fix #14...

[Craig Buchek]

@tarwich I don't think it'd help with #14. Because .txt is already registered, they'll always come up as the public.plain-text UTI.

I don't think there's a way to register a double extension like that, either.