From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Raskin" To: "'Gerald Pfeifer'" Cc: , Subject: RE: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:59:00 -0000 Message-id: <009401beb67e$67df8930$65c8c8c8@ehrpc.listworks.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-06/msg00475.html Any/all are OK with me. I just need clarification. :-) Jeffrey, since you get most of the patches, what do you think? Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Pfeifer [ mailto:pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at ] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:56 AM > To: Eric Raskin > Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com > Subject: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second > attempt) > > > [ Moved from egcs-patches to the egcs list. ] > > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Eric Raskin wrote: > > BTW, no one is clear on whether patches should be sent as > attachments or > > in the message, so I've done both. Please add this to > contribute.html for > > the future. > > Personally I prefer MIME attachments, as these bear the least risk of > interferences (like tab-space converions, newlines,...) from the mail > system and all modern mailers should be able to handle them > most easily. > > I agree that we should specify some (list of) preferences on our > contribute.html pages. > > How about the following? > > 1. Patches as MIME attachments > 2. Patches as plain text at the end of the mail > 3. Patches as uuencoded gzipped text at the end of the mail > > Gerald > -- > Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Raskin" To: "'Gerald Pfeifer'" Cc: , Subject: RE: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: <009401beb67e$67df8930$65c8c8c8@ehrpc.listworks.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00475.html Message-ID: <19990630154300.MRgsGg2VzT1EgsJe0Q9Qky390X81DoXpzIDgluKiqn4@z> Any/all are OK with me. I just need clarification. :-) Jeffrey, since you get most of the patches, what do you think? Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Pfeifer [ mailto:pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at ] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:56 AM > To: Eric Raskin > Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com > Subject: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second > attempt) > > > [ Moved from egcs-patches to the egcs list. ] > > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Eric Raskin wrote: > > BTW, no one is clear on whether patches should be sent as > attachments or > > in the message, so I've done both. Please add this to > contribute.html for > > the future. > > Personally I prefer MIME attachments, as these bear the least risk of > interferences (like tab-space converions, newlines,...) from the mail > system and all modern mailers should be able to handle them > most easily. > > I agree that we should specify some (list of) preferences on our > contribute.html pages. > > How about the following? > > 1. Patches as MIME attachments > 2. Patches as plain text at the end of the mail > 3. Patches as uuencoded gzipped text at the end of the mail > > Gerald > -- > Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/