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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2020-01-06T16:55:36Z"
+ content="""
+It's a C library and it's not vendored into the haskell library as is often
+the case, so it has be be linked in. I don't know what would be involved in
+getting it installed on windows and bundled with git-annex in a usable state,
+and I'm a bit afraid to find out.
+
+WSL can be used to run linux git-annex on windows, so that's a way already
+available to use MagicMime.
+
+(The entire future of the windows port is currently TBD, it seems likely
+that it will go away and WSL be used, aside from the current bugs in WSL
+that make sqlite crash.)
+"""]]