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Re: Sending attachments
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Sending attachments |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:50:58 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't think anybody was talking about ``real support for MIME''.
> People who managed to get away without MIME at all till this day
> probably don't need more than a simple way of attaching non-text
> files.
It's not what rms asked about, but it's certainly relevant to the
discussion. Even if rms and ams would be satisfied with mail-mode +
simple-attach, it's natural to step back and think about the wider
implications of doing that.
In particular, the objections to simply adopting message-mode are still
unclear to me (other than the obvious one, that rms continues to be
annoyed because it was merged [apparently] without asking him). Roughly
these objections seem to be something along the lines of "mail-mode is
simpler", but unless I've missed it, there's been little discussion of
exactly what the benefits of that are.
Some random points that come to mind:
(1) We must still maintain message-mode as well, so mail-mode's
"simplicity" yields no obvious code maintenance Benefit.
Indeed, it's obviously more of a _burden_ to maintain both modes
than it is to maintain message-mode alone (in the case that we got
rid of mail-mode). This burden goes up, of course, if mail-mode
starts getting more features, like the suggested attachments.
(2) I've used both modes over the years, and from my viewpoint as a
user, both modes seem pretty much the same form a UI standpoint --
message-mode has more bindings to support its additional
functionality, but they do not get in the way as far as I can see.
So as far as I can tell, mail-mode does not have an obviously
simpler UI for the average user.
So... what exactly _is_ the "simplicity advantage" that's been alluded to?
[The "duplicated code disadvantage", on the other hand is pretty obvious...]
Thanks,
-Miles
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- Re: Sending attachments, (continued)
- Re: Sending attachments, Daniel Pittman, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Kenichi Handa, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/07
- Re: Sending attachments, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/07
- Re: Sending attachments, Stefan Monnier, 2009/07/11
- Re: Sending attachments, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/06