Uday Reddy <[email protected]> writes:

>VM has traditionally shipped with C programs for MIME encoding/decoding.
>Rob F created an entire Unix-like infrastructure (Make files, configure,
>autoconf etc.) pretty much to handle just these.  If we get rid of these C
>programs, VM can be shipped just like any other emacs library.
>
>Both GNU Emacs and XEmacs now have built-in encoding/decoding functionality
>for base64.  So, we can use them.  For the Quoted Printable format,
>emacs-lisp seems to be fast enough.  Gnus has been using it for ages and
>everybody seems happy with that.
>
>So, I am thinking of getting rid of the C programs for MIME.  Does anybody
>see any problem with that?

Sounds good to me.  Thanks!

/Lew
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Lew Perin / [email protected]
http://babelcarp.org

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