This may be related to problems I have experienced with the AbiGdkPixBuf
plugin and bz2abw plugin.


Maybe other were affected, I can't tell.


Hugs, rms

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 20:01, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Well, almost - it's about 95% done. I basically just need to rewrite 1
> more method which works right now just as if my heuristic code hadn't
> been committed.
> 
> I'll clean up my code shortly to use a Confidence datatype instead of a
> UT_uint8.
> 
> Basically, everything that imports returns a normalized number between
> [0,255] with 0 being "I'm not at all confident", 127 being "I'm so-so"
> and 255 being "I can totally handle this file type". Applies to both
> recognizeContents and recognizeSuffix methods.
> 
> What I'm going to do is heavily weight the recognizeContents method
> (maybe 85-15) and apply the following heuristic:
> 
> my_match = heuristic(contentsConfidence, suffixConfidence);
> if ( my_match > best_match )
>   best_filetype = my_match_filetype;
> 
> This will fix a few bugs in bugzilla.
> 
> Dom
-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?

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