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@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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. + +(This change was made when Reuben Thomas noticed that all the bugs +listed in the BUGS section of the man page had been fixed!) + +--- + +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. |