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SubjectRe: Binary files in the kernel sources?
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, I Lee Hetherington wrote:

> Perhaps so that diff/patch will work and people can pass around ascii
> patch files?

True.

> There are currently no binary files inside a kernel
> tarball.

Wrong.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Matthias Andree wrote:
> > I'm asking again: what's the point in encoding binary files such as PNG,
> > if the whole lot is stuffed into a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 anyways?
>
> Diff and patch can't handle binary files.

True.

Still, for uuencoding, there are far too many implementations of
uuencode around (with/out checksum, with/out boundary, using blanks
(0x20) or backticks (0x60)), and finally, uuencode is trashed when
quoted-printable encoded.

These considerations are overcome by MIME which is well-defined. Wrong
implementations of a well-defined standard may not be excused, flaky
implementations of a not-so-well "standard" are to be avoided.

Note that particularly, 8 years after RFC 1521/1522 (which have not
really changed in 2045..2049), there is absolutely no excuse for a lack
of MIME support.

--
Matthias Andree
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