Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:53:46AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: >> On Tuesday, 04 November 2008 at 11:51, Patrice Dumas wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:42:32AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: >>>> Hold on, how do you know that something is a "binary" ? What if, for >>>> example, it's an image bitmap? In the general case it's not possible >>>> to tell if something is source or binary. >>> At least ELF files could be found out. >> So could Windows binaries (executables, DLLs, C# blobs) and Java JARs. > > File isn't very good at detecting java code, and it only see jar as Zip > archive, and .class file as data. But using the extension + the fact > that it is a zip archive may be a safe bet. The fact that it's a JAR doesn't tell you it has any precompiled code in it: some JARs don't. By all means do this for ELF, but let's be sensible. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
