Re: new mime detection approach

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 08:43, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:

> > However, I think that, given some work, we can make the mime
> > sniffing pretty damn good.
> 
> It already fails today for some Gimp files, so I have pretty much zero
> hope that it won't lead to missdetection with much less common files
> or new file types yet to come.

Then the detection should be fixed.  There is absolutely nothing wrong
with the fundamental method of sniffing - there are just bugs.  Bugs
happen, bugs get fixed, everyone dances joyously, etc.  ~,^

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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.