On May 15, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009, David Brownell wrote:I'd also like to see a brief update about why this list adopts the unusual "send as an attachment" policy.Because one of the maintainer uses Windows and applying patches with cutand paste doesn't work so well? FWIW, I consider patches in attachment annoying as well. Nicolas _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
Attachments are annoying, but they avoid lots of odd issues that crop up when email clients get too eager to help. Things like trailing spaces and tab to space conversion tends to happen. Attachments are preserved much better in general.
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