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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Responsive projects (was: Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm
 today ).)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:18 -0000 (UTC)
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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 23:42 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:47:23 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
> wrote in <v1ir6d$o14n$1@dont-email.me>:
[snip]
>> I wouldn't ding small open-source team for being slow in responding to bugs, as
>> they may have other more important things on their plate.
>> 
>> I will note one responsive project: Meson, on GitHub. Meson was using a file
>> called "meson_options.txt" to hold default values for project options. I wrote
>> up an issue about it (as had others earlier, apparently), and I noted that
>> the "txt" extension is too generic, and that I edited my /etc/DIR_COLORS file
>> so that I could grok a directory listing faster. And in version 1.1 IIRC,
>> voila, there was meson.options to supplement meson.build.
>
> I posted an issue for gmime yesterday, and ended up in a dialogue
> with the lead developer.
>
> Pan users will note that I was bird-dogging a problem that has plagued
> pan since they moved to gmime for handling headers -- currently,
> Newsgroups: lines don't wrap properly, and get MIME-encoded
> if they are too long.  News servers choke on that.  (My C is too rusty
> to fix it easily, but I can see where the fix should go.)


That explains why I see random MIME messages..
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