[ANN] mahoro-0.1

[Shu-yu Guo]

Mahoro is a (very) simple and straightforward interface to the libmagic
interface, a C library to the well known file(1). It is released in the
Public Domain and may be downloaded from:

http://www.rufuran.org/mahoro.html

It contains an extremely lacking test suite, but is otherwise
functional. On the topic of functionality, it contains a
rather-nonfunctional name; I derived it from Magic -> Mahou -> Mahoro.

A reference is provided for on the website linked above.

 

[Shu-yu Guo]

Moved to RubyForge:

http://mahoro.rubyforge.org/

 

[Ian Macdonald]

Mahoro is a (very) simple and straightforward interface to the libmagic
interface, a C library to the well known file(1). It is released in the
Public Domain and may be downloaded from:

http://www.rufuran.org/mahoro.html

It contains an extremely lacking test suite, but is otherwise
functional. On the topic of functionality, it contains a
rather-nonfunctional name; I derived it from Magic -> Mahou -> Mahoro.

A reference is provided for on the website linked above.

Do you know of any significant differences between your library and this
one?

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/

Ian
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[Shu-yu Guo]

Do you know of any significant differences between your library and
this
one?

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/filemagic/

Oops, I didn't know that existed (I guess I wasn't very thorough in my
search). It was a very simple thing to code, so I decided to release it
after I wrote it. There are no significant differences except in that
what I wrote seems a bit more complete: you can set flags, check
validity of databases, and so forth. There is no compelling reason to
use one over the other, I'm sorry I didn't know someone already wrote
an interface.

For what it's worth, I released mine in the PD.

 

[Ian Macdonald]

Oops, I didn't know that existed (I guess I wasn't very thorough in my
search). It was a very simple thing to code, so I decided to release it
after I wrote it. There are no significant differences except in that
what I wrote seems a bit more complete: you can set flags, check
validity of databases, and so forth. There is no compelling reason to
use one over the other, I'm sorry I didn't know someone already wrote
an interface.

Thanks for the information. I was going to write an extension to do this
myself, then saw that someone had already done it. Then, I saw that you
had just written an alternative implementation, so I wondered which of
the two I should use.

Thanks,

Ian
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