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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:03:32 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
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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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