Gmime for Indiana [LSARC/2008/067 FastTrack timeout 02/13/2008]

[Brian Cameron]

Irene:

I don't have any further issues.  However, considering the number
of changes to the spec, I think it would  make sense to update the
spec with these changes?

> here's the issue list raised in this thread (with answer). 
> 
> Why is Gmime set to be "Volatile" 
> Jerry: Currently in the community, incompatible changes are introduced
> sometimes. It cannot be marked as "Uncommitted" or "higher"
> 
> .pc files should be "Uncommitted"
> Jerry: Yes, spec updated
> 
> Brian Cameron-01: What's the relationship between GMime and the
> freedesktop MIME specification. 
> Jerry: no relationship.

That isn't true.  There is an obvious relationship - they both relate
to MIME types.  The answer Jerry gave to this question was better:

   gmime is a library to parse mime (mail) and mbox file,
   gnome-mime-data, freedesktop mime spec are about file types.

   Currently, there are several application that use gmime.

   Balsa ( a mail client for gnome), Pan ( a newsreader), DBMail( a group
   of programs that enable the possiblilty of storing and retrieving mail
   messages from a database) Beagle (for indexing email) tracker
   (indexing email)

I think this answer could go into section 4.1 to make the case more
clear.

Brian