Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

From: Jeff Garzik (garzik@havoc.gtf.org)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 13:03:32 EST


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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