From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27134 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 20:01:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27122 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 20:01:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 20:01:46 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C1D294F; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:04:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E5A7AB2.2010005@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:01:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Carlton Cc: Kris Warkentin , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Add Kris Warkentin to write after maintainers. References: <001101c2d9f8$7a7303f0$2a00a8c0@dash> <1030222020400.ZM18826@localhost.localdomain> <1030222021025.ZM18868@localhost.localdomain> <003301c2da28$71ce7ce0$2a00a8c0@dash> <3E5A4ABD.1080706@redhat.com> <01be01c2dc25$306f33d0$0202040a@catdog> <3E5A52BD.8030409@redhat.com> <3E5A60B2.50207@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00598.txt.bz2 > For what it's worth, the mailer that I use (GNUS) seems to think that > text/x-patch is the appropriate MIME type for patches. Certainly I > agree that application/octet-stream is a bad idea, and frankly I think > just inserting patches into the buffer instead of attaching them is > easiest. But there's a case to be made for attaching patches instead; > if so, I think text/x-patch is the way to go. Hopefully, in that > case, any mailer will notice the text/ part and will be willing to > display the contents without too much coercion. Looks good in theory, I've seen problems with unknown types. Anyway, Kris has found that .txt works! Andrew