From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: using libmagic in Emacs? Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ocqco7fi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y6pb8lqh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87my5qngab.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87eiquuq7j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83vdk69evw.fsf@gnu.org> <874orp58fp.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83ljl0ae9j.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251757375 31559 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2009 22:22:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 00:22:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MiFGx-0001Kn-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:22:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiFGw-0005cT-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MiFGH-0005FV-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MiFGC-0005Dc-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40977 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MiFGC-0005DX-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56449) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MiFGC-0005Dm-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MiFGB-0001Nc-7H; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:21:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <83ljl0ae9j.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:49:44 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114924 Archived-At: > There are many features in Emacs that depend on external programs, > e.g. `ls' for dired, `find' and `grep', `man', `ispell', `shell', > `gdb', `diff', VCS tools, etc. I said infrastructure, not features. I don't expect any general infrastructure to use `file', just a few commands. If those commands have to do their best without `file' on some systems, it won't be a big deal. > When `libmagic' is available, then usually `file' is available as well > on the same platform. No. libmagic can be bundled and compiled with Emacs. I don't think that price is worth paying for the use of libmagic. It is not important enough.