1Most TODOs live in the TODO section of doc/file.man (i.e. file(1)). 2They are more visible there, so please add any further TODOs to that 3file, not here. More speculative material can live here. 4 5(This change was made when Reuben Thomas noticed that all the bugs 6listed in the BUGS section of the man page had been fixed!) 7 8--- 9 10It would be nice to simplify file considerably. For example, 11reimplement the apprentice and non-pattern magic methods in Python, 12and compile the magic patterns to a giant regex (or something similar; 13maybe using Ragel (http://www.complang.org/ragel/)) so that only a 14small amount of C is needed (because fast execution is typically only 15required for soft magic, not the more detailed information given by 16hard-wired routines). In this regard, note that hplip, which is 17BSD-licensed, has a magic reimplementation in Python. 18 19Read the kerberos magic entry for more ideas. 20 21Write a string merger to make magic entry sizes dynamic. 22Strings will be converted to offsets from the string table. 23