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Most TODOs live in the TODO section of doc/file.man (i.e. file(1)).
They are more visible there, so please add any further TODOs to that
file, not here. More speculative material can live here.
2012-03-31 20:24:03 +02:00
2012-05-02 13:23:57 +02:00
(This change was made when Reuben Thomas noticed that all the bugs
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,
reimplement the apprentice and non-pattern magic methods in Python,
and compile the magic patterns to a giant regex (or something similar)
so that only a small amount of C is needed (because fast execution is
typically only required for soft magic, not the more detailed
information given by hard-wired routines). In this regard, note that
hplip, which is BSD-licensed, has a magic reimplementation in Python.