On Wednesday March 30 2016 20:16:37 Ryan Schmidt wrote: >libmagic should be used to determine the compression format; filename >extension should not be used.
I'd agree with that - if introducing an additional dependency isn't an issue. I guess that the set of compression formats to recognise is limited and rather well-known, so alternatively a home-grown solution could be used. I've implemented something like that for an old "less" version long ago that I've been maintaining (because I never felt like porting it to newer versions =)). I'd be happy to donate that code so it can be bundled in a little Tcl package - that way it should be relatively straightforward to implement an updating mechanism for just that extension if ever a need arises to support new formats without requiring a full MacPorts upgrade. On a related note: didn't I hear/see discussion about the possibilities of providing certain features as (more or less obligatory) ports? R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
