Re: [PATCH] lib/cli: pass GMIME_ENABLE_RFC2047_WORKAROUNDS to g_mime_init()

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> LGTM in principle, though I'd like to see a test of some of the
> malformed RFC 2047 that this lets us decode.  Is there a summary
> somewhere of exactly what these workarounds enable?

Not that I know of; looking into gmime source it's mostly about encoded
words without surrounding space, or space within encoded words.

v2 now has known broken tests for known broken encodings...

> This isn't directly related to this patch, but is there a reason we
> g_mime_init in so many different places?  Both the CLI and
> notmuch_database_open I can understand because the CLI also uses GMime
> and should be sure it's initialized.  Maaaybe
> notmuch_message_file_get_header because notmuch_message_file
> theoretically independent of the database, even though I don't think
> it's possible to call into it without first calling
> notmuch_database_open.  But _notmuch_message_index_file?

I noted the same, but decided it's another patch, another time.


BR,
Jani.