Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] Cleanups for Compile Warnings Under 64bit Linux

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:30:15PM +0300, Abhik Sarkar wrote:
> Slightly off topic, but in this statement/request...
> 
> > Please do not send patches compressed as zip files: It makes viewing
> > them inline impossible. I at least won't spend the time at looking at
> > them (except that they personally interest me).
> >
> 
> Did you mean "zip files" literally, or did you mean "compressed
> files". In the latter case, doesn't this conflict what is mentioned in
> the "Source Code" section of
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/SendingFilesToWireshark?

I talked about zip in particular. In a more general sense, I'm not a big
fan of tar.gz/tar.bz2 either. Anything that not only compresses but also
archives. It makes inline viewing rather unpleasant. Just compress the
stuff with e.g. gzip or bzip2.
It's interesting that you mention the wiki page though: Did you read the
"Dos and Don'ts" section?

> I also remember that there has also been some discussion earlier on
> how certain mail clients maul text-attachments.

I hope these people have by now opened tickets with the respective
vendors.

 Ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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