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Re: MAINTAINERS file


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:44:54 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>>> But the focus will be on 23.1.  As mentioned I'd like to enter feature
>>> freeze for 23.1 by the beginning of the summer.  Until then I mostly
>>> hope to include Emacs.app.
>> 
>>> I hope that the Rmail mbox branch can be included in 23 also.
>> 
>> That would be fine by me, but is there progress on this front?

>    I think the development on the Rmail mbox branch stopped.

>    As I am working on the EasyPG support for Rmail, and getting more
>    familiar with the Rmail code, I would be glad to revive this branch.
>    But since I was not part of the previous rewrite effort, it is quite
>    difficult to get an overview of what has been done so far and what 
>    still needs to be done.

> Sadly I haven't eard from Enrik and Alex for ages. I know there
> is an embryon of a working mbox branch 8but* it is far from
> complete.

> What is not quite clear to me is what do people expect from this
> "rewrite effort" exactly ?

To me the first goal should be just to change the underlying format from
BABYL to standard mbox so that it can interact with other programs.

> I guess the primary goal is to switch to a more "popular" file
> storage but Alex and Enrik have also worked on the MIME part to,
> at last, have a decent MIME support (even basic) for us, Rmail users.

MIME additions would be good.  Ideally, this should share a lot of code
with the Gnus MIME code (some of which is also used by MH-E IIUC).


        Stefan




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