Whelp, it's a good thing I periodically google for my projects to see
what folks are saying about them. I noticed that this thread existed
and unlike the thread implied, I have already responded (with neither a
return response, nor a bounce that I am aware of) to the person who
stated he could not contact me (Mark Webb). You can see the attached
mbox with my messages.
I'd be interested in all feedback and would certainly be open to
contributing my code. As I mentioned in the attached messages, I have
already considered it before.
And yes, jMimeMagic is less than perfect. It was born out of my own
pain and my own needs (as software often is). I tried to make it
somewhat usable for other folks though. There are certainly a thousand
things that could be done better. I have many changes that I would like
to make myself. It's simply a matter of time and demand. I do have a
full-time job unfortunately =P
Tisk tisk tisk...folks are just so eager to criticize. Certainly not
every design decision I made was perfect and just as certainly there are
many more optimizations to be made. Formats need to change, new magic
rules to be added, etc. etc. But c'mon now...play fair, don't just say
blah blah blah it sucks.
Anyhow, I'd love to participate. If that means from scratch, so be it.
But let's have a discussion about what everyone doesn't like and why,
what we'd like to see refactored, etc. As far as I am aware, jMimeMagic
is the only open source java MIME/content detection library out there.
If it makes sense to re-use some of it, then we should.
Oh yeah...heh...nice to meet you all. I'm David (arimus). <wave/> My
real job is as a Software Architect for a software vendor in Irvine,
CA. I moonlight as an open source developer who wishes it could be his
full-time job ;)
Cheers,
David
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mark Webb wrote:
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> Hello -
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> I was wondering if you are still working with the JMimeMagic
> library. I started working on a proposal for a file type
Oh, and to answer this question...yes, off and on. I have a number of
projects on work on, so jmimemagic hasn't had as much love as it could
have recently.
> checker for the jakarta commons project and ran across
> JMimeMagic. Please let me know if you are still interested
Also, jMimeMagic has started to go a bit further than just file type
checking. I'm still hoping to do more in the way of a pluggable
architecture for it.
> in working this probject, and if not, would you have a
> problem with me merging in some of your code to the project
> I am working on for jakarta commons?
BTW, do you already have code yourself? Also Apache wants to see projects
with a minimum of 3 active developers before they will allow you to create
a project...unless you have contacts with some folks over there =)
I am actively involved in several OSS projects, so we have that
requirement covered.
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Funny. I have been thinking for quite some time of trying to get it in
the sandbox for the commons. I'd certainly be interested in being a
core developer of any commons project that could become home to
jmimemagic and offspring.
I know that the Apache folks typically like to see already existing
projects with a community around them before being accepted. Do you
already do development for current Apache projects?
Cheers,
David
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mark Webb wrote:
>
> Message body follows:
>
> Hello -
>
> I was wondering if you are still working with the JMimeMagic
> library. I started working on a proposal for a file type
> checker for the jakarta commons project and ran across
> JMimeMagic. Please let me know if you are still interested
> in working this probject, and if not, would you have a
> problem with me merging in some of your code to the project
> I am working on for jakarta commons?
>
> Thank you.
>
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