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Re: using libmagic in Emacs?
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Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: using libmagic in Emacs? |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:47:45 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> I thought only relatively minor and safe ones,
>> but this one seems to break that rule, at least in my book.
>
> It looks pretty safe: the first step is to add the Lisp API, which
> should not impact any other code (tho it may cause temporary build
> failures, I guess). After that, set-auto-mode (and/or image.el, ...)
> will need to be tweaked to also take libmagic into account
> when available. This should also be fairly simple.
I don't think that sounds simple or safe; however, there's not enough
information to know for sure, until Joakim posts the patch.
>> Maybe we should simply decide right here and now that Emacs 23.2 will
>> be delivered from the RC branch, and open the trunk for all changes,
>> even not-so-safe ones?
>
> Yes, that's pretty much where we're at, I think, yes.
Actually, if people want to start including more intrusive changes, I
think we should cut a new branch from the current trunk. This would
postphone the CEDET merge to 23.3.
- using libmagic in Emacs?, joakim, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Chong Yidong, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, joakim, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/18
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: using libmagic in Emacs?, joakim, 2009/08/19
- next bugfix release? [was: Re: using libmagic in Emacs?], Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/08/19
- Re: next bugfix release?, Chong Yidong, 2009/08/19
- Re: next bugfix release?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/08/19
- Re: next bugfix release?, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/08/19
- Re: next bugfix release?, Nick Roberts, 2009/08/19
- Re: next bugfix release?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/20
- Re: next bugfix release?, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/08/20
- Re: next bugfix release?, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/08/20
- Re: next bugfix release?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/20