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Re: C++ PATCH: Tree dumper
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:08:05 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: C++ PATCH: Tree dumper
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> I think sending patches as MIME attachments is a great idea, provided
> you can teach your mailer to send them as "text/plain" and not encoded
> as "octet-stream" or whatever. This way they will display inline on
> virtually any mail reader, and also have the advantage of being
> drag-and-drop saveable without worrying about formatting/whitespace
> problems etc.
On the contrary, patches in the main message body are more convenient for
replying.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk