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Re: [rmail-mbox-branch]: mail-utils
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Alexander Pohoyda |
Subject: |
Re: [rmail-mbox-branch]: mail-utils |
Date: |
09 Oct 2004 18:04:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 01:34:49AM +0200, Alexander Pohoyda wrote:
> > > The mm- stuff seems not to be intended to be gnus-specific, but rather
> > > general-purpose code for handling mime that happens to be developed as
> > > part
> > > of gnus.
> >
> > Yes, I understand the intention.
> >
> >
> > > There are probably a few dependencies on gnus that have crept in, but I
> > > presume these could be excised.
> >
> > Some mm-*.el files use quite often functions or constants with gnus-
> > prefix.
>
> Can you be more specific? I did a grep, and the dependencies seem pretty
> much restricted to a few files (e.g., mm-view.el);
Yes, there are only very few cases:
mm-partial.el:(require 'gnus-sum)
mm-partial.el: (set-buffer gnus-summary-buffer)
mm-partial.el: (gnus-request-article-this-buffer (aref header 0)
mm-partial.el: (gnus-summary-article-number))))
mm-partial.el: (setq gnus-article-mime-handles
mm-partial.el: (append (if (listp (car gnus-article-mime-handles))
mm-partial.el: gnus-article-mime-handles
mm-partial.el: (list gnus-article-mime-handles))
mm-partial.el: (run-hooks 'gnus-article-decode-hook)
mm-partial.el: (gnus-article-prepare-display)
mm-uu.el: :group 'gnus-article-mime)
mm-view.el: (autoload 'gnus-article-prepare-display "gnus-art")
mm-view.el: (run-hooks 'gnus-article-decode-hook)
My primary concern, however, is that mm- stuff is rather a MIME
parser (viewer), while rfc*.el files implement basic functions.
Wouldn't it be good to have these two things clearly separated?
If we don't separate mm- and basic MIME functions, and if we don't
move them out of gnus directory, people will continue to re-implement
basic functions.
Do you know of any good reason to have the mm-* stuff used in rfc*
files?
Anyway, we need MIME support in Rmail. Would it be correct to make
Rmail depend on file from Gnus directory? My idea is to move MIME
stuff into lisp/mail(/mime?) directory. Both Gnus and Rmail could use
these basic functions. All I propose to move, are few files:
lisp/gnus/rfc2045.el
lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el
lisp/gnus/rfc2231.el
leaving mm-* files intact. What exactly do you disagree with?
> > I would like to have a clean MIME library first.
>
> Sure, and the mm- stuff seems like the right to start from.
By "MIME library" I mean functions like
rfc2045-qp-decode-string,
rfc2231-decode-string,
rfc2047-decode-region
but not
mm-inline-partial,
mm-inline-image-xemacs,
mm-setup-w3,
mm-inline-message
> would completely silly to reimplement all of it when mm- is pretty
> close to what you want anyway.
People may have their own ideas how to use MIME, let's not force them
to use mm- as a bonus.
--
Alexander Pohoyda <address@hidden>
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