Re: SEUL: File formats and /etc/magic

[David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org>]

Are you referring to the
  GNOME User-Interface Style Guide
  http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aklikins/gnome/style.html
?

I am collecting a list of program style guidelines at
  http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/linux.html#style_guides
so I always appreciate book references and web pointers to more of them.

>From: Erik Walthinsen <omega@omegacs.net>
...
>However, if you look through the magic file, you'll find that many formats
>are detected not by a magic number, but by the actual format of the data.
>This means that, if you understand the format well enough, *any* file can be
>id'd.  The project I referred to (check www.ccil.org/~esr/ for a link)
>appears to be developing a better format/language for the magic file that is
>capable of detecting almost *anything*.
>
>Besides, if someone writes a program that uses a non-id'able file format, it
>won't be go in SEUL without some changes.
>
>Eventually we may have to define the "10 Commandments" for projects to follow
>before they can be integrated into SEUL.  It'll be more than 10, though.  For
>an example of this, check the guidelines for the GNOME project.
>
>     Erik Walthinsen <omega@seul.org> - SEUL Project system architect

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