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Re: [RFA] Fix "show convenience" test
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
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Pedro Alves