From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Magic MIME
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:51:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JOmAg-0003Ia-Kf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bq6ndx3p.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:59:38 +0200)
Emacs could follow the principle of graceful degradation here: if there
is no necessary external command or mime database on the system, then
it will provide less reliable result that will be no worse than the
current without using the magic.mime based file type recognition.
Unless that gets us big benefits, it is better if we don't use it.
There is an advantage in keeping Emacs self-contained.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-10 23:18 Magic MIME Juri Linkov
2008-02-11 2:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11 20:55 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-12 3:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-11 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-11 21:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-12 3:51 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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