Closing as approved.

Updated spec available at 
http://sac.eng/Archives/CaseLog/arc/LSARC/2008/067/specv2.txt

--Irene
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?
>
>> 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 this answer could go into section 4.1 to make the case more
> clear.
>
> Brian


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