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Re: [VM] MIME encoding/decoding
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Lewis Perin |
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Re: [VM] MIME encoding/decoding |
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Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:34:28 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) |
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.
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>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.
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>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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