From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:15:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83d48e1oz6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0922916E-B9DD-41C4-8A3D-8550CDD56B62@mit.edu> <83r5ww1m3k.fsf@gnu.org> <871vovsvi8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83ljn324xd.fsf@gnu.org> <87skhbrdz3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83hbxr0zc6.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbxqrha4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246850173 24315 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2009 03:16:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 06 05:16:05 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNegU-0003fR-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:16:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57182 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNegT-00049F-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNeg2-000488-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNeg0-00047w-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34559 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNeg0-00047t-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:36618) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNefz-00022Y-E0; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KMC00I00BH9GO00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:15:25 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.102.107]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KMC00EFABPOR080@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:15:25 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hbxqrha4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112061 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68645 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:44:51 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> > And this is out of scope for mail-mode, which (AFAIK) does not support > >> > news. > >> > >> What exactly is the plan here? > > > > There is no plan (yet). I was just trying to estimate the effort > > needed for adding simple attachment facility to mail-mode. Plans, if > > there will be such, will come later. > > So that would be the "let's add this one function now and > deal with the real problem later" answer, yes? Maybe, or maybe it will be a "let's do nothing" answer. > The point was that real support for mime (as message-mode has today) > can't be done piecemeal I don't think anybody was talking about ``real support for MIME''. People who managed to get away without MIME at all till this day probably don't need more than a simple way of attaching non-text files.