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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

  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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