Re: [RFC PATCH] show: Add support for -format=raw -body=false

Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] show: Add support for -format=raw -body=false

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:19:35 -0400

To: David Edmondson, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> On Thursday, 2021-02-04 at 22:33:06 -04, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
>>
>>>> I'm just nervous about more legacy formats. I think we will get the
>>>> arbitrary headers thing working eventually, but I can see it might take
>>>> some time.
>>>
>>> Are we ever likely to get rid of the raw format? I use it quite a bit,
>>> and it seems to be relatively low complexity and simple to support.
>>
>> It isn't completely without maintenance overhead, but I agree it's not
>> going away. I can live with the body=false option if you think it's
>> better / more feasible than the arbitrary headers series.
>
> At the moment I'm using the former because the latter is missing, but in
> principle I think that they might fill different needs. Could we have
> both?

On the scale of things, the extra code is not a big deal, so sure.

d
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