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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:12:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] embedded libmagic (from file)
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

Many incompatibilities and features are not available upstream. The
more we work on it the more differences we have. I have to strongly
(really strongly) discourage any kind of hacks to allow external
libmagic usage. That will only limit the features available to the PHP
users, like stream support for example.

Cheers,

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Ond=C5=99ej Sur=C3=BD <ondrej@sury.org> wr=
ote:
> Hi,
>
> [I have searched the list and no relevant answer came up, only one
> unanswered question (*)]
>
> I would like to ask whether there is a strong reason to have
> customized libmagic in the source tree as the only option. I saw the
> discussion that you want to have embedded magic database, but still I
> would like to have an option to use system libmagic if available.
>
> This is similar to libgd, etc.

No, it is definitively not the same than libgd. Libgd is now being
synced and the core features were the same.

Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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