Hi Uday, Suggest keeping these in the source tree if anyone really needs them, but not make part of a standard package.
Mark 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? > > Cheers, > Uday > > (Coming back after a long hibernation) >
