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Binary converter programs

Bug #1212254 reported by Uday Reddy
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Uday Reddy

Bug Description

The Emacs Wiki says that both GNU Emacs and XEmacs have built-in conversion programs for Base 64 and Quoted Printable formats.

Indeed, GNU Emacs has qp-decode-region and qp-encode-region (as part of Gnus) and base64-decode-region and base64-encode-region as C programs.

Investigate these and, if possible, eliminate the binaries distributed with VM. This should simplify the VM build process.

Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
milestone: 8.3.1a → 8.2.1a
assignee: nobody → Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
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Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

Have used the built-in converter programs for a couple of years now (since 2014-07-24) and found no problems. We can disable the binary programs now.

Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

Revision 1434 of trunk has enabled the built-in base64 converter programs for FSFemacs. They were already enabled for XEmacs.

Changed in vm:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
milestone: 8.2.1a → 8.2.90a
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