Hi, Brian On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:27 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > Irene: > > I don't have any further issues. However, considering the number > of changes to the spec, I think it would make sense to update the > spec with these changes? Yes, of course we will update the spec. > > > here's the issue list raised in this thread (with answer). > > > > Why is Gmime set to be "Volatile" > > Jerry: Currently in the community, incompatible changes are introduced > > sometimes. It cannot be marked as "Uncommitted" or "higher" > > > > .pc files should be "Uncommitted" > > Jerry: Yes, spec updated > > > > Brian Cameron-01: What's the relationship between GMime and the > > freedesktop MIME specification. > > Jerry: no relationship. > > That isn't true. There is an obvious relationship - they both relate > to MIME types. The answer Jerry gave to this question was better: > > gmime is a library to parse mime (mail) and mbox file, > gnome-mime-data, freedesktop mime spec are about file types. > > Currently, there are several application that use gmime. > > Balsa ( a mail client for gnome), Pan ( a newsreader), DBMail( a group > of programs that enable the possiblilty of storing and retrieving mail > messages from a database) Beagle (for indexing email) tracker > (indexing email) I think I should leave this to Jerry. He has talked to the Maintainer of gmime.
--Irene > > I think this answer could go into section 4.1 to make the case more > clear. > > Brian
