On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > BTW, why do people insist on sending patches as attachments -- it makes > > commenting them helly twisted, sigh... > > How true. MIME - broken solution for a broken design ;) More serious, Why broken? It's not broken for what it was invented to, i.e. for passing unsafe characters via SMTP. Source patches do not qualify as containing such. > MIME makes sense when using a MUA that garbles patches like Netscape or > certain versions of Pine. MIME is not a solution for broken MUAs or MDAs and was not intended as one, definitely. Pine got broken quite recently (it eats white space at line ends; that may be circumvented by using `patch -l' and may actually be advantageous in not adding white space there if present in the patch; the drawback is `patch' doesn't eat white space to be removed either) and there is a patch available (the package I have at my site doesn't have it applied, though, I admit; the next version should). The ancient version I'm using here seems safe as is. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
