Re: Help on enhancement #3096

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:32:50PM +0200, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" wrote:
> >> But if adding a command line flag that allows the script to send
> >> the changes as attachments is possible, I'd say that's fine.
> >
> > +1 for making it configurable, but IMO the attachment format should be
> > the default.
> >

I don't think we should change current default behaviour, unless
there is a very compelling reason to do so. Some setups out there
might, you know, depend on the current behaviour and totally break
with the new one.

So it is better to leave the default behaviour as is and provide
different functionality via additional options. Best of both worlds.

> Regardless of the default option to be used:
> a) Is this desirable in general, more opinions?

In another thread (can't find it right now...) someone suggested
that mailer.py was far more advanced than the Perl equivalent. It
was questioned whether we really want to maintain both in our tree.

I myself don't think it's a problem, as long as there's maintainers
for both.

> b) Will be acceptable for the patch to depend on the MIME::
> library/namespace? I don't want to spend time on something that is not
> going to be accepted.

I don't know. My knowledge of Perl is far too miniscule to
have an informed opinion on that.

Stefan