Re: [rmail-mbox-branch]: mail-utils

[Alexander Pohoyda]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:38:54PM +0200, Alexander Pohoyda wrote:
> > The gnus/rfc2047.el file contains something like this:
> > 
> >  (require 'mm-util)
> >  ;; Fixme: Avoid this (used for mail-parse-charset) mm dependence on gnus.
> >  (require 'mail-prsvr)
> >  (require 'base64)
> >  (autoload 'mm-body-7-or-8 "mm-bodies")
> > 
> > and I decided that I better not merge pure RFC-defined functionality
> > with GNUS-specific functions.
> 
> The mm- stuff seems not to be intended to be gnus-specific, but rather
> general-purpose code for handling mime that happens to be developed as part
> of gnus.

Yes, I understand the intention.


> There are probably a few dependencies on gnus that have crept in, but I
> presume these could be excised.

Some mm-*.el files use quite often functions or constants with gnus-
prefix.  I would like to have a clean MIME library first.


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