How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

[ 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/

RE: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Eric Raskin]

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/

Re: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 009401beb67e$67df8930$65c8c8c8@ehrpc.listworks.com >you write:
  > Any/all are OK with me.  I just need clarification. :-)
  > 
  > Jeffrey, since you get most of the patches, what do you think?
I generally prefer plaintext, unless there's a fascist mailer messing up
tabs, line breaks, etc.  After that I don't much care whether they're mime
or uuencoded gzipped text.

jeff

Re: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> Jeffrey, since you get most of the patches, what do you think?
> I generally prefer plaintext, unless there's a fascist mailer messing up
> tabs, line breaks, etc.  After that I don't much care whether they're mime
> or uuencoded gzipped text.

Thanks for the feedback.

Unless there are objections by others, I plan to add the following to the
submission notes (contribute.html):

  "We accept patches as plain text (preferred for the compilers
   themselves), MIME attachments (preferred for the web pages),
   or as uuencoded gzipped text."

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

RE: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Eric Raskin]

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/

How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

[ 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/

Re: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 009401beb67e$67df8930$65c8c8c8@ehrpc.listworks.com >you write:
  > Any/all are OK with me.  I just need clarification. :-)
  > 
  > Jeffrey, since you get most of the patches, what do you think?
I generally prefer plaintext, unless there's a fascist mailer messing up
tabs, line breaks, etc.  After that I don't much care whether they're mime
or uuencoded gzipped text.

jeff

Re: How to submit patches (was: DG/UX Port Patches -- second attempt)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> Jeffrey, since you get most of the patches, what do you think?
> I generally prefer plaintext, unless there's a fascist mailer messing up
> tabs, line breaks, etc.  After that I don't much care whether they're mime
> or uuencoded gzipped text.

Thanks for the feedback.

Unless there are objections by others, I plan to add the following to the
submission notes (contribute.html):

  "We accept patches as plain text (preferred for the compilers
   themselves), MIME attachments (preferred for the web pages),
   or as uuencoded gzipped text."

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/