From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-02-13T06:29:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Comments on base64.rb

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:40:37 +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> <good observations snipped>

> One other thing - in the Perl side of the world, the Base64 package is
> placed under the "MIME" toplevel package.  Should we consider the same
> thing?  Python does not, however.  Just thought I'd mention it.

Actually, I'd like to see Base64 under an Encode:: toplevel module. This 
way, we could have Encode::Base64, Encode::QuotedPrintable, Encode::Yenc, 
Encode::UUEncode, etc., as appropriate. While Base64 is most-often used for 
MIME data, it isn't a MIME application in and of itself, like MIME::Types or 
other MIME modules in Perl that could be ported to Ruby.

-austin
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