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Re: Emacs 22 branch created.
From: |
Henrik Enberg |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 22 branch created. |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:48:37 +0200 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:50:26 +0200
> > From: Henrik Enberg <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > > I'd also like to remind us the rmail-mbox branch, which we also wanted
> > > to merge post-22.1.
> >
> > I'm not sure it is suitable for immediate merging
>
> IMO, if it's not merged now, it will be another long wait. So we had
> better merge it now and fix all that needs fixing, while most people
> are using the pretest branch.
I guess people who use the bleeding edge can live with some regression
while the details are being hammered out.
> > * At the moment, it is slightly worse than current Rmail when it comes
> > to non-ascii support. One of the major points of moving to the mbox
> > format is to be compatible with external tools, and that rules out
> > storing mailboxes in emacs-mule form, which old Rmail does. I'm
> > still not sure what the best approach here would be here. UTF-8?
> > Raw text?
>
> Neither. I think you should encode it and store it encoded, like it
> would be when it comes from the wire.
>
> > * Gnus BABYL support will break. Since the new Rmail no longer knows
> > how to decode BABYL, neither will Gnus.
>
> Why cannot we retain the BABYL support? It won't hurt leaving it
> alone: e.g., all my email archives are in BABYL format, and I'd like
> to be able to read them, even if only thru unrmail or b2m.
It's not quite that drastic. A BABYL box will be converted to mbox
format on the fly if you load it.
I'm talking about the ability to browse and save BABYL boxes. The
BABYL-support bits are so permeated through Rmail that you'd end up
having to specialcase half the functions in there, creating a complete
mess. It would likely have been easier to write a whole new mailreader
than try to do it like that.
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., (continued)
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Kenichi Handa, 2007/04/25
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Richard Stallman, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Richard Stallman, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Richard Stallman, 2007/04/28
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/28
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/25
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created.,
Henrik Enberg <=
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Francesco Potorti`, 2007/04/26
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Henrik Enberg, 2007/04/26
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Richard Stallman, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Henrik Enberg, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Kim F. Storm, 2007/04/27
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Richard Stallman, 2007/04/28
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/04/28
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/28
- Re: Emacs 22 branch created., Richard Stallman, 2007/04/28