Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:57:46 +0200
> 
> The MIME library developed for Gnus was designed as a general-purpose
> Emacs MIME library.

With all due respect, ``designed as'' is not the same as ``is''.  As
long as a library is not sent upstream to the Emacs maintainers and is
not described in the ELisp manual, it cannot be considered part of
Emacs infrastructure, in my opinion.

> (Which is why it's documented in the Emacs-MIME manual.)

That's a separate manual, not part of the ELisp manual.  Therefore, a
programmer who is looking for infrastructure that's part of Emacs will
not find this library.

In other words, a general-purpose library should not be part of a
package that is maintained outside Emacs.  IMHO, of course; YMMV.