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: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:29:48 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6480-Sat18Oct2003102948+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> <9003-Fri17Oct2003082402+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066466187 4161 80.91.224.253 (18 Oct 2003 08:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 18 10:36:24 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 1AAmZU-0000ih-00 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAmZU-00057g-00 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:36:24 +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 1AAmZ6-0002X2-Tv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAmYH-00023G-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAmXl-0001lq-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.16] (helo=frigg.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAmXk-0001i4-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.158.102]) by frigg.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id CXE07573; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:34:24 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:57:46 +0200) 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:17232 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17232 > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:57:46 +0200 > > The MIME library developed for Gnus was designed as a general-purpose > Emacs MIME library. With all due respect, ``designed as'' is not the same as ``is''. As long as a library is not sent upstream to the Emacs maintainers and is not described in the ELisp manual, it cannot be considered part of Emacs infrastructure, in my opinion. > (Which is why it's documented in the Emacs-MIME manual.) That's a separate manual, not part of the ELisp manual. Therefore, a programmer who is looking for infrastructure that's part of Emacs will not find this library. In other words, a general-purpose library should not be part of a package that is maintained outside Emacs. IMHO, of course; YMMV.