Re: Add Kris Warkentin to write after maintainers.

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:13:06 -0500, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:

> My reason for asking this favour is that mailers (e.g., mozilla)
> refuses to display application/octet-stream attachments as inline text
> (kind of understandable - the content is not printable).  That makes
> reviewing anything you post that bit harder.  To comment, I've got to
> unpack the mail and then inspect separate files.  If, instead the
> attachment could be made some sort of printable type (how about
> e-mailing me a diff called diff.txt?), it will be displayed in-line
> and people will be able to quickly/efficiently cut/paste any reply.

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.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu