No deltas via email anymore?

[Andre Albsmeier]

On Thu, 21-Jan-2010 at 02:31:56 +0100, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Stephen McKay wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 20th January 2010, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >
> >> Stephen McKay wrote:
> >>
> >>> It would be trivial to change ctm_smail to send lines of 72 characters.
> >>> It would reduce the encoding efficiency slightly, but not enough to
> >>> worry about.  It is not worth making it optional.  I'll probably do
> >>> this when I get a moment.
> >>
> >> This looks very easy to implement, namely change the line
> >> #define LINE_LENGTH     76
> >> in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm_smail
> >
> > Yes.  Multiples of 4 only.
> >
> >> So, would there be a problem with making this start right now?
> >> (Remember I make the deltas, so I can make this happen anytime.)
> >
> > Righto.  I've changed my local copy from 76 to 72 and did a small test
> > run.  Works for me.  I'll update the official source when I get a chance.
> >
> > A cautious person would do their own test run, of course. :-)
> 
> I have made the change.  The next ctm generation starts 10pm CST.  Can 
> people tell me if there are problems?  I must admit to not being 
> cautious, but the worst that will happen is that people will need to 
> download those deltas from the ftp sites.

src-7.0897.gz came in here at 7:48 UTC. It was of course, according
to the headers, still converted to quoted-printable but, since there
were never any 8bit chars and the line length was 72, no conversion
was actually done. I could directly feed it to ctm_rmail and all
went fine ;-).

Let's see how things develop with further deltas but, if those
M$ morons don't play with there knobs again, things should be
fine.

Thanks a lot,

	-Andre