From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix "show convenience" test
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909171916.44937.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac60eac0909171057j6c6ac9e3neb5f46912b10efe9@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 17 September 2009 18:57:31, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> <quote>
>
> *sigh*
>
> How old is base64 now, has it hit 15 years yet? "text based mail reader"
> my left foot, there's nothing to prevent a text based mail reader from
> decoding mail in a 15 year old standard.
>
> I can accept the argument that a pure text, 7bit ascii message of a
> text subtype shouldn't be encoded automatically. I'm even suprised
> that its base64 encoded and not qp-encoded if there happened to be
> line-ending/wrapping concerns.
>
I hope that means that they'll address it. :-) This also prevents
mail archives from showing the patch inline. Compare:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-04/msg00105.html
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/get-raw-msg?listname=gdb-patches&date=2009-04&msgid=8ac60eac0904061159v4deb9d48n1cf791463e587e54%40mail.gmail.com
vs
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-09/msg00496.html
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/get-raw-msg?listname=gdb-patches&date=2009-09&msgid=200909152132.15317.sergiodj%40linux.vnet.ibm.com
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 0:32 Sérgio Durigan Júnior
2009-09-16 13:16 ` Pedro Alves
2009-09-16 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-17 16:37 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-09-17 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-17 17:57 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-09-17 18:16 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2009-09-17 18:29 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-09-17 19:25 ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-09-17 19:52 ` Pedro Alves
2009-09-17 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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