From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>,
Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] contrib: remove "thunderbird-patch-inline"
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 21:05:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jz6mo4n9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250509-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v2-0-14e20d95ec68@pks.im>
Hi,
You said:
> The "thunderbird-patch-inline" directory in "contrib/" contains a script
> to send patch files via Thunderbird. This script depends on the
> ExternalEditor extension [1], which seems to be effectively unmaintained
> with the last update being in 2008. While the extension has eventually
> been maintained in [2], that fork hasn't received any updates since
> 2020, either.
>
> In addition, the script itself hasn't really seen a lot of maintenance
> outside of a couple of global cleanups. It is quite unlikely that this
> setup still works, and if it did it's even less likely that somebody
> uses this script.
FWIW, in case it helps any Thunderbird users, there is External Editor
Revived which seems to work pretty well when I used Thunderbird [1].
I think this script would be irrelevant with that extension though.
Collin
[1] https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-12 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-06 14:12 [PATCH 00/10] Spring cleanup of "contrib/" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 01/10] contrib: remove "remotes2config.sh" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-07 6:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-07 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 02/10] contrib: remove "examples" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 03/10] contrib: remove remote-helper stubs Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 04/10] contrib: remove "thunderbird-patch-inline" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 05/10] contrib: remove "hooks" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 06/10] contrib: remove "mw-to-git" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-07 9:11 ` Matthieu Moy
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 07/10] contrib: remove "persistent-https" remote helper Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 08/10] contrib: remove "git-resurrect.sh" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-07 6:58 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-07 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-07 18:36 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 09/10] contrib: remove "emacs" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-06 14:12 ` [PATCH 10/10] contrib: remove "git-new-workdir" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-07 6:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-07 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-09 7:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-06 20:43 ` [PATCH 00/10] Spring cleanup of "contrib/" Junio C Hamano
2025-05-06 22:51 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-05-07 1:32 ` Todd Zullinger
2025-05-07 3:55 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-05-07 6:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-10 20:07 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-05-12 13:10 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] contrib: remove "remotes2config.sh" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] contrib: remove "examples" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] contrib: remove remote-helper stubs Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] contrib: remove "thunderbird-patch-inline" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] contrib: remove "hooks" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] contrib: remove "mw-to-git" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] contrib: remove "persistent-https" remote helper Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] contrib: remove "git-resurrect.sh" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] contrib: remove "emacs" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] contrib: remove "git-new-workdir" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 9:17 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] contrib: remove "stats" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-09 23:31 ` Elijah Newren
2025-05-09 23:53 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Spring cleanup of "contrib/" Elijah Newren
2025-05-10 0:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-12 9:39 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 4:05 ` Collin Funk [this message]
2025-05-12 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] contrib: remove "thunderbird-patch-inline" Phillip Wood
2025-05-12 14:45 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 16:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-14 15:19 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-16 13:53 ` [PATCH v2] contrib: update thunderbird-patch-inline Phillip Wood
2025-05-16 14:05 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-05-19 5:38 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-19 5:50 ` Collin Funk
2025-05-19 14:21 ` Phillip Wood
2025-06-03 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-19 15:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-10 12:30 ` [PATCH 00/10] Spring cleanup of "contrib/" Peter Krefting
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] " Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] contrib: remove "remotes2config.sh" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] contrib: remove "examples" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] contrib: remove remote-helper stubs Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] contrib: remove "thunderbird-patch-inline" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-16 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-26 8:47 ` Toon Claes
2025-06-04 14:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] contrib: remove "hooks" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] contrib: remove "mw-to-git" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] contrib: remove "persistent-https" remote helper Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] contrib: remove "git-resurrect.sh" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:19 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] contrib: remove "emacs" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-12 9:20 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] contrib: remove "git-new-workdir" Patrick Steinhardt
2025-09-08 9:28 ` Gabriel Scherer
2025-09-08 9:58 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-09-08 15:22 ` Gabriel Scherer
2025-09-12 18:14 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-09-12 18:55 ` Gabriel Scherer
2025-09-12 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-12 20:05 ` Phillip Wood
2025-09-12 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-08 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-12 9:20 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] contrib: remove some scripts in "stats" directory Patrick Steinhardt
2025-05-13 2:53 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] Spring cleanup of "contrib/" Elijah Newren
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