From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:33:43 -0400 Organization: mh-e crew - mh-e.sourceforge.net Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6674.1066415623@mixed> References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <6480-Thu16Oct2003192118+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3405-Thu16Oct2003205828+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <9003-Fri17Oct2003082402+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3513.1066405164@mixed> <1659-Fri17Oct2003201701+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066415708 9463 80.91.224.253 (17 Oct 2003 18:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 20:35:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAZRH-0006NA-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAZRH-0000Om-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAZQr-0008VF-NY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAZQd-0008SS-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAZQ6-0008G4-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.110.141.131] (helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAZQ0-0008FU-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F12771C6A; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mixed (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E42171C68 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:33:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Message from Eli Zaretskii of "Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:17:02 +0200." <1659-Fri17Oct2003201701+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2+cvs; nmh 1.1-RC1; GNU Emacs 21.3.1 X-Image-URL: http://people.debian.org/~psg/face.png X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:17220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17220 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:39:24 -0400 > > From: Peter S Galbraith > > > > > If they did it the Right Way, we would not need to have > > > this discussion now, just point Alexander to the existing functions. > > > > The only MIME functions currently in Emacs are from gnus, so point him > > at those. > > They should be in lisp/mail/, not in lisp/gnus/. In other words, they > should be in common Emacs infrastructure, documented in > lispref/*.texi, and all the Emacs mail packages should use them. That sounds like a pretty good idea to me. The drawback for us is the very slow release cycle of Emacs (e.g. the released version of MH-E with Emacs is two years old). Currently, some fancier capabilities of MH-E are only availble if the user has also installed a separate recent version of gnus since the Emacs version is too old. I suppose we would solve that problem by packaging a current snapshot of the Emacs MIME package (if it existed), but we would have to maintain a fork if you used code that is not backward compatible with older versions of Emacs. -- Peter S. Galbraith, MH-E developer GPG key 1024/D2A913A1 - 97CE 866F F579 96EE 6E68 8170 35FF 799E 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/