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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: using libmagic in Emacs? |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:05 -0400 |
PLEASE do not base Emacs infrastructure on external programs, unless
they come with Emacs. `file' is not available on every platform, and
libmagic isn't either.
even on those it is, the quality and extent of its database is unclear
and so cannot be relied upon.
On systems that have libmagic, isn't it the case that file uses libmagic?
I really don't understand why linking against a simple free library is
an issue, but if it is, we should find a different solution using some
database internal to Emacs, as we did until now.
It shouldn't be a big deal. Only a few specialized places should want
to run `file' on a file.
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- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/30
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?,
Richard Stallman <=
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- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/31
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/25
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