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Re: C++ PATCH: Tree dumper
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:57:40 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: C++ PATCH: Tree dumper
On 20 Nov 2001, Geoff Keating wrote:
> I think what was intended is that if patches are sent as MIME
> sections, they should be:
>
> 1. Marked with a content-disposition of 'inline', not 'attachment'; and
> 2. Encoded as '7bit' or '8bit', not 'base64' or 'quoted-printable'.
>
> I believe the aim is to allow those who don't have MIME-capable mail
> readers to still be able to read the patch without needing to run a
> separate decoder, and those who do have MIME-capable mail readers to
> have the patch in the body of the mail where they can most
> conveniently quote it in replies.
Alexandre, I believe Geoff summed this up nicely, so we do not need to
have special rules for your targets, but should clarify that page. Would
you mind doing so?
(For the web pages also MIME attachments are fine with me.)
Gerald
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