Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug

[Peter S Galbraith]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>     > They should be in lisp/mail/, not in lisp/gnus/.  In other words, they
>     > should be in common Emacs infrastructure, documented in
>     > lispref/*.texi, and all the Emacs mail packages should use them.
> 
> If they are a general facility, they should definitely be moved;
> the main repository for them should be the Emacs repository.
> 
>       Currently, some
>     fancier capabilities of MH-E are only availble if the user has also
>     installed a separate recent version of gnus since the Emacs version is
>     too old.
> 
> If you distribute MH-E outside of Emacs, you can distribute whatever
> you like with it.

We distribure a few contrib files that are not part of MH-E proper, but
we let users fetch gnus for themselves.  (On Debian systems, the mh-e
package simply recommends the gnus package.)

Peter