Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar ene 17 14:24:05 -0300 2012: > > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > > On 01/16/2012 05:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> It's expected that we'll get a more reasonable interface to attachments, > >> one that will allow you to download patches separately. (Currently, > >> attachments that have mime types other than text/plain are already > >> downloadable separately). > > > Are you really sure about that? My recent JSON patch is at > > <http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4f12f9e5.3090...@dunslane.net>. > > I don't see any download link for the patch there, yet my mailer set the > > attachment type to text/x-patch, not text/plain. > > Yeah, AFAICT the archives treat text/x-patch the same as text/plain.
Right, maybe it's text/* or something like that. > I tend to send stuff that way if I mean it primarily to be read in the > email. If I'm thinking people will download and apply it, it's better > to gzip the patch and pick a mime type appropriate to that, because that > makes it much easier to pull the patch off the archives at need, at the > cost that you can't just eyeball it in your mail reader. Maybe we could find a way to convince Mhonarc to present links to download all mime parts separately, not only those that are undisplayable. > Anyway, I agree with the general tenor of this thread that it'd be nice > to reduce the impedance mismatches a bit. Don't have any great ideas > about specific ways to do that. I'm hopeful that the migration to the Archivopteryx stuff by Matteo will improve things a bit. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
