2013-12-06 12:04:52 +01:00
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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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2012-03-31 20:24:03 +02:00
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2012-05-02 13:23:57 +02:00
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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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2013-12-06 12:04:52 +01:00
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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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so that only a small amount of C is needed (because fast execution is
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typically only required for soft magic, not the more detailed
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information given by hard-wired routines). In this regard, note that
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hplip, which is BSD-licensed, has a magic reimplementation in Python.
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