At 01:52 PM 12/21/96 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>Well, the new parser is half written. Unfortunately I've run into what
>will become somewhat of a problem: not wanting to figure out the semantics
>of the internal mail and header parsing functions (and having too weak a
>stomach to look at them for long periods of time) I took the cheap way out
>and wrote "use MIME::Parser". Now I have something that, for the moment,
>behaves almost exactly like the old Majordomo parser except for the fact
>that it transparently deals with base64 and quoted-printable and will
>process each text/plain piece of a multipart message. Recursively.
This is of huge value, I think. (Modifying "digest" to produce MIME
digests and/or old-style digests which can be burst into individual
messages which are still MIME-decodable would be a good accompaniment.)
>I'd be inclined to say 1.94.x is it and either require perl5 for 1.95 or
>just call it 2.0 and get on with it. It doesn't really matter to me,
>though if I knew I didn't have to worry about perl4 I could just go ahead
>and use complex data structures and be done with it. It would be nice to
>know how many of the registered sites are using perl4.
One of the decisions we made at work (based, I admit, largely on our
support pricing model) was that major releases should be numbered based
on perceived functionality, not on the number of lines of code that
change. I think that a Majordomo that "does the right thing" with
MIME messages just might be worth bumping the number.
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