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Most TODOs live in the TODO section of doc/file.man (i.e. file(1)). |
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They are more visible there, so please add any further TODOs to that |
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file, not here. More speculative material can live here. |
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(This change was made when Reuben Thomas noticed that all the bugs |
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listed in the BUGS section of the man page had been fixed!) |
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It would be nice to simplify file considerably. For example, |
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reimplement the apprentice and non-pattern magic methods in Python, |
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and compile the magic patterns to a giant regex (or something similar; |
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maybe using Ragel (http://www.complang.org/ragel/)) so that only a |
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small amount of C is needed (because fast execution is typically only |
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required for soft magic, not the more detailed information given by |
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hard-wired routines). In this regard, note that hplip, which is |
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BSD-licensed, has a magic reimplementation in Python. |
