Shared Mime Library 0.5

Shared Mime Library is my implementation for libsharedmime. It reads the Shared Mime Info database and returns you the MIME-TYPE of a file. Freedesktop make this database freely available, but they dont seem to be distributing a library to read it anymore (Its no where in their CVS that I can find).
It is different to the freedesktop version in the following ways:
- Licensed under LGPL instead of the GPL at aid all developers. *sigh*
- Has NO dependencies. Which is an important feature in this world of tangled packages all depending on each other.
- Probably not as fast?
- Not as complete (yet)?
To install the package firstly you need the Shared Mime data files. Which you can get from here. Then download and unpack libsharedmime and:
% make
# make install
Enhancements:
- Added code to check for a text file if the content lookup fails, if it matches it gets a text/plain type.
- Stopped the content lookup being performed on directories.
- Fixed a bug in the magic matching code that caused valid matches to fail. This means that some files will now return the correct mime type as opposed to a default "not found" type.