> > Hi Brain and Mark, > > Brian K. Wallace wrote on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:18 PM: > > >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Just be conscious of the fact that, with all open source >> > projects, time >> > is usually volunteer/as available/as the urge strikes. I >> > wouldn't start >> > to get anxious for a couple of weeks. (some take longer, but >> > I'm anxious >> > by then) >> > >> > As for forking -> commons, remember licensing issues. GPL/LGPL != ASL. >> > In order for ASL to come into the picture you'd have to not fork but >> > start from scratch. IANAL, but that's how it's been presented before. >> > > Starting from scratch would be possibly the best anyway. I had it also on my > todo list on a very low priority ... but just, because I found that > jMimeMagic has a really worse implemenattion - extremly slow and not working > correctly. I have a good pile of image files it does not detect. Main reason > is, that the implementation is simply What exactly is extremely slow and not working correctly?
There are lots of things that don't detect out of the box right now, since only a subset of magic rules are defined in the magic.xml file. > wrong. The original magic files have a clear idea of precedence of patterns > - this has been lost completely in the conversion/implementation of > jMimeMagic. > What is simply wrong about the implementation? Precedence of matchers is a part of the current implementation, so I'm not sure what you mean. jMimeMagic wasn't a conversion, it was an implementation written from scratch. David > - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
