ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
Guys, I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you please, Please, PLEASE, attach them as Text/PLAIN? I use Pine over a ssh connection to read wine-{devel,patches}, and I can simply view the Text/PLAIN attachments, whereas I have to: -- press V to view the list of

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: Guys, I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you please, Please, PLEASE, attach them as Text/PLAIN? Another issue which is dear to Alexandre :-) When I send a patch with netscape and then read the email in

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Dimitrie O. Paun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For all these reasons (and more), I think Linus is right when he insists on: -- ONE patch per email -- ONLY Text/PLAIN attachments. I can't say I disagree with you, but I'll just note that all your patches are base64 encoded, which is not really

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Eric Pouech
Maybe we should put an auto-rejecter of mime crap on the wine-patches list.. or an automatic converter/inliner... A+ -- --- Eric Pouech (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/) The future will be better tomorrow, Vice President Dan Quayle

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Dimitrie O. Paun
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Francois Gouget wrote: Another issue which is dear to Alexandre :-) I wonder why?... :) When I send a patch with netscape and then read the email in pine, I see the email and the attachement right below it. When I send a patch with pine, I have to use V, select

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: [...] BTW, how do you fork the external pager? I just do '', select the attachement and 'V'. I don't think I have any specific option. [...] Me too! :) That is, I would like to know as well. I guess you can insert the patch in the body of the

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Joerg Mayer
Hmm, looks like after the failed attempt for a flame war on version numbering, you are trying to start one on mail clients 8-=) On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you please, Please, PLEASE,

Re: ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you please, Please, PLEASE, attach them as Text/PLAIN? I use Pine over a ssh connection to read wine-{devel,patches}, and I can Use a better mailer like mutt