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List:       exmh-workers
Subject:    Using new nmh features (was Re: base64 bug handling \r characters
From:       Valdis.Kletnieks () vt ! edu
Date:       2004-09-24 17:50:30
Message-ID: 200409241750.i8OHoU5S027088 () turing-police ! cc ! vt ! edu
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:10:41 +0200, aeriksson@fastmail.fm said:

> This is getting close to a thought I've had lingering for a while. Has
> anyone made any checks as to how close the nmh mime support is to the
> needs of exmh? nmh has gotten quite a few features which exmh has
> implemented itself, and it just seems like a Good Thing to reuse the
> (supposedly faster) c version. If it's close enough I'm sure we can 
> add a few patches to it to do the right thing.

I don't think there's all THAT much that would help, really - the amount of new
added features between UCI MH 6.8 and nmh 1.1.1 isn't THAT great, and in a lot
of places, it's not worth calling nmh when we can do it in Tcl code because the
whole pipe/fork/exec thing is rather heavyweight.

As Chris mentions, the only obvious place we could easily get a Big Win would
be reworking the MIME-build support to use mnbuild.  But if you know of
anything else, feel free to suggest it and maybe somebody will get ambitious..
;)


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