Re: Debian package (was: Efficiency issues/thoughts)

Jason Rennie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
> Indeed, I cannot read some of the old messages due to rotten
> cookies... 

This is worth discussing if you think there is a better solution.  Does 
sourceforge offer mailing lists?

[email protected] said:
> But to stay on topic, I think it is wrong to build any special parsing
> into ifile (like MIME, headers, signatures, etc.).  I think that such
> a job should be carried out by other (small) programs designed for
> that purpose (ie., the Unix way).  Rationale: such small programs can
> be used by other programs, and when standards change, there is just
> one place to adapt that change. 

There are benefits to both approaches (lots of little programs/one program
that does everything).  ifile uses the Unix approach for handling
differences between e-mail clients, but I don't know if it would be most
appropriate for parsing code.  We'll see :)

[email protected] said:
> Cool!  I am making a Debian GNU/Linux package containing ifile and the
> Grant Taylor procmail interfacing stuff.  (By the way, the Grant
> Taylor link on the ifile web page is not working.)  I will put the
> gnus stuff into the Debian package, as well, if you don't mind. 

Great to hear!  Can you be more specific about the Grant Taylor link?  I 
don't have any problems with it.

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
[email protected]
(617) 253-5339
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/
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