From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Thunderbird and patches Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:07:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4993F4D3.1060501@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <498E50E2.8050309@codeweavers.com> <200902072310.12764.bss@iguanasuicide.net> <498F01C2.5080105@codeweavers.com> <499022D3.3000200@drmicha.warpmail.net> <49902EDC.6020901@beonex.com> <49903521.1060101@codeweavers.com> <49903B27.8070608@beonex.com> <49904DE7.2080205@codeweavers.com> <4990519C.8060601@drmicha.warpmail.net> <499058B4.4070009@beonex.com> <49907F75.2050100@beonex.com> <499151C9.7090502 @drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Brandon Casey , Ben Bucksch , Jeremy White , "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." , git@vger.kernel.org To: Miles Bader X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 12 11:09:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LXYV0-0001tT-PV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:08:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755868AbZBLKHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:07:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755691AbZBLKHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:07:23 -0500 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:58245 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755085AbZBLKHW (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:07:22 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFE3292A12; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:07:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:07:21 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: +ncr4repM+Wzp+zVpBaAYfTKb2HApLf9nkmofuOoLuPe 1234433240 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C0B6296E1; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:07:19 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090209 Shredder/3.0b2pre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Miles Bader venit, vidit, dixit 12.02.2009 05:37: > Michael J Gruber writes: >>> In other words: use the right tool. Or, as somebody put it at the >>> GitTogether: to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. >> It just seems that the workflow "required" here on the git list is the >> way it is because it caters for differently abled MUAs which can't >> handle certain standards (inline disposition) efficiently. Mutt >> obviously can, so it's not a matter of John Doe's MUA versus geeky >> MUAs. > > So, since you decry flames later in your message, why did you feel it > necessary to throw in this rather creaky bit of flamebait? > > [The issue is apparently MUAs which munge messages when not wanted; that > says _nothing_ about what non-munging MUAs can or can not "handle".] I think we all (all who participated so far) agreed that the MUAs we talked about have different abilities, thus are differently abled (pun intended). By now, all sides have worked constructively together to make things work for all MUAs and all users. Dscho even cooked up a Thunderbird extension, Ben provided input for git-imap-send. If you want to fuel the flames you're too late. If you want to contribute you're welcome to. Michael