Re: [VM] MIME encoding/decoding

[Mark Diekhans]

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 <address@hidden> 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)
>