Re: RFP: shared filetype autodetection library

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:09, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> One of the major and important goals of any filter import/export mechanism 
> is the auto-detection of the actual type of any given file, based on its 
> contained data, extension, or some other mechanism (or combination thereof).
> 
> What I'm proposing here is the creation of a shared library akin to the 
> 'file' command. Please gently point out to me if gnomevfs or something 
> similar already does this. If something like gnomevfs already has this, I'd 
> like to propose moving it into its own separate library.
> 
there is already code for that in gnome-vfs, so I guess we can take it
out of it and have it as a separate library.

cheers
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