Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:03:32 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:34:12PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > > with the difference being that BK has an optional way of wrapping > > them up in uuencode (or whatever) so that mailers don't stomp on them. > > isn't that just the same as sending them as attchment? And isn't that > discouraged?
gcc developers love that uuencoded stuff for large files it seems, but it's not big in l-k land... plaintext patches are preferred. The main requirement is that the patch is NOT obscured by base64 or uuencoding.
Jeff
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