On Friday, 4 October 2013 at 07:39:36 UTC, FreeSlave wrote:
I was suggested to bring this idea up here.
fileType should be a function for determining of file type.
Example of usage:
Suppose application uses special directory for plugins (i.e.
dynamic libraries). In graphics user interface it can be
reflected like list of checkboxes that show which plugins are
on and which are off. To implement this we should know that
file actually represents dynamic library without trying to load
it into executable memory. Yes, we can load and unload every
file in place to check that it's valid dynamic library but it's
some kind of hack.
Another example is file manager. It has icons for the most
common file types and usually relies on file extension to
determine which icon should be used. But we can't always rely
on extension. For example many games use .pk3 extension as
alias to .zip, but file manager know nothing about it and shows
these files like ones with unknown extension.
So how do you think does phobos need these capabilities? May be
you have other examples where this function can be useful.
Seems a bit specific to be put in the standard library. If you
don't mind GPL, you can look at the source for file:
http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
