From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14547 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 18:40:25 -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 14533 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 18:40:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 18:40:20 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1OIe3r18309; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:40:03 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Andrew Cagney 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> From: David Carlton Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:40:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3E5A60B2.50207@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00594.txt.bz2 On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:13:06 -0500, Andrew Cagney 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