From: michael libby Date: 2002-09-04T11:15:51+09:00 Subject: Re: New list: ruby-modules - for module developers... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:42, Shashank Date wrote: > What gets me is that not all emails with PGP signatures come as > attachments. Some do and some don't. > > I wonder if there is some difference in the mechanism. Yes, there is. One email client is sending a plain text email and the other is sending the PGP signature as a mime attachment. Without knowing for certain, I'd guess Sean is using Sylpheed. But looking at his email headers revealed he uses mutt (or at least that his mailer wants us to believe it is mutt). Personally, I consider this is a design flaw in the email client (and is the primary reason I switched back to KMail after trying and liking Sylpheed). There is no reason to send pgp-signed text as two separate chunks when it can just as easily be sent as a unified piece of text. Were I writing an email client (oh wait, I am writing one) I would send the mail so that it can be piped directly into gpg --decode without the need to locate both the text file (the .txt piece of MIME) and the signature (the .asc piece of MIME)... although I guess this can interfere with the content of the plain text as well, it doesn't like rows of hyphens very much, so there is a downside. FYI, while my mailer can reply to Sean's email fine, KMail does not seem to handle verification of signatures passed as MIME attachments. I wonder if mutt and/or sylpheed can handle both methods just fine? As to the module developer list: hopefully the first topics will include a documentation standard and a standard packaging format. I was all set to run with RD, but I can't seem to find a native tool like perldoc in the core Ruby distribution-- are there plans to put rdtool/rd2 in there so we can assume they are installed anywhere Ruby is found? And while I like RDoc quite a bit, it's definitely not the same thing as perldoc, which I find immensely useful when dealing with new modules. Of course, there's no reason module developers can't use rdtool on their own to generate man pages, include those in their module distributions and install them into the system appropriately. But if one were to do such a thing, where would be the "right" place to install man pages about Ruby modules? -michael ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Michael C. Libby public key: http://www.ichimunki.com/public_key.txt web site: http://www.ichimunki.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9dWyL4ClW9KMwqnMRAuPFAJ9n3VrbBqoZtFrD63jPq1EaE2Ks3ACfT5N/ ExwyNTR5TVWLVpTm359QM4E= =vdJu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----