Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:51737 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10841 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2011 20:13:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Mar 2011 20:13:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=scott@macvicar.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=scott@macvicar.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain macvicar.net from 209.85.210.170 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: scott@macvicar.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.210.170 mail-iy0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.210.170] ([209.85.210.170:55449] helo=mail-iy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 72/B0-02751-F51B78D4 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:13:21 -0500 Received: by iyb12 with SMTP id 12so7238170iyb.29 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:13:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.55.2 with SMTP id vw2mr7621071icb.290.1300738397145; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.226.133 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:13:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [66.220.144.74] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:13:17 -0700 Message-ID: To: Pierre Joye , =?UTF-8?B?T25kxZllaiBTdXLDvQ==?= Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] embedded libmagic (from file) From: scott@macvicar.net (Scott MacVicar) I have a diff sitting that I did yesterday that upgrades us to the latest libmagic, it supports the new magic file format and updates that bundle. But that's all. I'm also against allowing the non-php version. Yes it's a fork but unfortunately it's for the best. - Scott On 21 March 2011 10:12, Pierre Joye wrote: > 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 = wrote: >> 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, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >