[patch 01/15] [makedist.diff] initial attempt at getting make dist to succeed

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> These patches are sent "inline" rather than as attachments..  You should use
> attachments so that mailers don't munge the whitespace.

That's kind of odd.  If my mailer munged whitespace, then I'd
certainly like to know, and I'd work to fix it.  But using attachments
seems like an awkward work-around for bad mailer behavior.  Using
attachments makes it very difficult to comment on the patch and also
inconvenient to handle with normal text-processing tools.

Most of the projects I work on would refuse attachments, preferring
inlines.

Notice that the attachments would be to _empty_ bodies.  The entire
email body *is* the foo.diff file.  (patch ignores the comments up
front.)  I guess I could see a benefit to attachments if I sent them
all together in one email.

Are there MUAs that will munge whitespace when saving an email to a
file?  If anyone wants a particular patch as an attachment, let me
know, and I'll send it offlist.

-chris