Re: [mat-dev] MAT2 announcement

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Lähettäjä: Christian Pietsch
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Aihe: Re: [mat-dev] MAT2 announcement
Dear Julien,

thank you very much for MAT2! I know people who have been waiting for
this a lot.

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 02:58:59PM +0200, jvoisin wrote:
> Six months ago, the 6th of March 2018, now that I felt way better, I
> started to write MAT2[2]. It provides the same features as MAT2, except
> that this time, it doesn't come with a proper graphical interface, but
> with a extension to Nautilus, GNOME's file manager. I would like to
> thank my friend Antoine Tenart for writing most of it.


I just submitted two tiny pull requests (7 & 8) intended to make
building and installing the Nautilus extension easier on Debian.

> It comes with a comprehensive testsuite with 100% coverage (including
> branches), uses several static analysis tools, supports a lot of
> different file formats, has proper documentation, …


The fact that the -c switch changed its meaning worries me a little.
People are used to write `mat -c file.pdf` to check and show metadata
without writing anything to a file. Now, `mat2 -c` is for checking
dependencies, and `mat2 -c file.pdf` should fail with an error message.
Instead, it silently acts as if the -c switch was not there and
proceeds to clean the file. I just created issue 59 with this
suggestion.

> Long story short, it's like MAT, but better, and you should use it :)


I took the liberty to spread the word in the Fediverse
<https://chaos.social/web/statuses/100656403452747445>
and on Twitter <https://twitter.com/ChPietsch/status/1036243827315671040>.
Digitalcourage did the same in German
<https://twitter.com/digitalcourage/status/1036246671389327360>.

Cheers,
C:

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