Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 8, 2008, 11:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802081135080.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <76718490802072010x63e2082akf1aa92b12cd24030@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> On Feb 7, 2008 6:44 PM, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
> > I also have mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed => false as suggested in 
> > SubmittingPatches.
> 
> Would teaching git-mailsplit to handle format=flowed be considered a 
> useful contribution?
> 
> (W/o sounding like a total script weenie, I'm actually wondering if 
> converting git-am, git-mailsplit, and git-mailinfo to Perl code wouldn't 
> be a bad idea... groking email is a lot more pleasant in Perl than shell 
> and/or C.)

FWIW I think you have it backwards. It might look nicer in Perl, but we try very hard to consolidate the major pieces into C code. This is done for several reasons:

- reducing dependencies (not everybody needs all git programs, so it even 
helps if one script is converted at a time), and

- making the experience nicer on Windows (reducing the foot-print, since 
Perl is _not_ commonly installed, and drastically improving performance, 
since the number of processes is reduced).

So no, I would not like these scripts being converted (back?) to scripts.

Thank you, Dscho