Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist CPAN Package: File::LibMagic Licence: as Perl itself URL: http://search.cpan.org/~fitzner/File-LibMagic-0.91/LibMagic.pm
Description: File::LibMagic is an XS interface to the libmagic library. The main difference between this module and similar modules (like libfile-mmagic-perl) is best described by the module's author: > RELATED MODULES > > I created File::LibMagic because I wanted to use libmagic (from file-4.x) > and the otherwise great Module File::MMagic only works with file-3.x. In > file-3.x exists no libmagic but an ascii file (/etc/magic) in which all > data (magic numbers, etc.) is included. File::MMagic parsed this ascii file > at each request and is thus releativly slow. Also it can not use the new > data from file-4.x or file-5.x. > > File::MimeInfo::Magic uses the magic file from freedesktop which is encoded > completely in XML, and thus not the fastest approach ( > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-December/msg00260.html ). > > File::Type uses a relativly small magic file, which is directly hacked into > the module code. Thus it is quite fast. It is also mod_perl save. It may be > the right choice for you, but the databasis is quite small relative to the > file-package. This package might later be used by lintian (if Russ or some other lintian maintainer accepts the change). The test suite fails when testing the local copy of magic{,.mime} it ships. This bug is known by upstream as http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39383 But this is mostly due to libmagic itself, AFAICS; and the other tests succeed. Perl team is CC'ed in case somebody wants to package it :). Thanks in advance! Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
