From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL in the next release Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:13:00 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <409FAA0C.3020104@pajato.com> References: <1858-Mon10May2004101343+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <87k6zkuzu1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084209288 11546 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 17:14:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:14:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 19:14:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNEM7-0006Fy-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNEM7-0006Gb-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEDv-0008Lm-FN for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNE66-0007cB-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNE5Z-0007We-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.113.133.197] (helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDOo-0007uK-8y; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.113.133.195] (roamer.pajato.com [209.113.133.195]) by copa.pajato.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4AGD11P001918; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:13:01 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87k6zkuzu1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23049 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23049 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>IIRC, there's a special branch of Emacs where RMAIL was modified to >>not convert the incoming mail to the Babyl format, and instead store >>it in the mbox fiormat. I think there was also some support for MIME >>in that branch. > > > Oops, completely forgot about that one. We had already decided to merge it > into the trunk (the reason at the time was to get it better tested), but > it looks like noone did it. > > Is the maintainer of that branch somewhere? I think it'd be fair to merge > it in, but only if it's currently considered "fine" by the few people who > tested it and if the maintainer is around so he can deal with the > bug reports. If you're talking about merging the branch in to test it for some prolonged period, then go for it. I will respond to bug reports, although it has been many, many months since I last worked on this piece of code. If you have in mind to ship it anytime soon then that is a bad idea. It has not been sufficiently tested to release yet. In that case do the merge right after the release so the code can have a suitable test period by the Emacs developers. -pmr