From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:24:02 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9003-Fri17Oct2003082402+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <6480-Thu16Oct2003192118+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3405-Thu16Oct2003205828+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066372767 20553 80.91.224.253 (17 Oct 2003 06:39:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 08:39:25 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 1AAOGj-0006xp-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:39:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAOGj-0007k5-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:39:25 +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 1AAOEA-0007Gb-GC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAODy-0007EQ-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAODN-0006lg-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.22] (helo=gollum.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAODM-0006iu-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.158.102]) by gollum.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id BQH47471; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:28:31 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 16 Oct 2003 15:21:40 -0400) 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:17198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17198 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: 16 Oct 2003 15:21:40 -0400 > > > Is forwarding such a frequent operation? > > The question is not even relevant: it needs to be possible to do it, > so you need to keep the info, just in case. If the operation is not frequent, the information can be kept in some form that doesn't allow an efficient implementation. So the question is relevant. > It might be suboptimal in some cases, but in terms of programmer resources, > it's pretty close to optimal. Admittedly, it's not clear whether programmer > resources is the bottleneck w.r.t MIME decoding given the number of > different MIME-decoding package have been written in elisp. Or maybe it is > the bottleneck and it's a shame that we would write yet-another one rather > than use a pre-existing one such as the one in Gnus (wisely used by MH-E). Actually, I think it's a shame that every add-on mail package invented its own way of doing things instead of contributing the infrastructure to Emacs. If they did it the Right Way, we would not need to have this discussion now, just point Alexander to the existing functions.