On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 2025/03/19 20:44:29 Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > > Folks > > > > Can we make a decision of some sort? > > > > Michael, you seem to prefer we continue to support MIME in HttpClient. > > > > What we can do is to add a statement to the HttpClient 5.5 release > > notes that we are considering dropping support for MIME entities in > > HttpClient in favor of Apache Mime4J and ask those who would like us to > > continue to support MIME get in touch. Some commitment to help us > > maintain MIME code would also help > > If it aint broken, don't fix it.
Nice :-) I haven't used MIME4J myself, therefore I don't know the overhead. What I would do is: > * Reinstantiate the random boundary in our code I like that one, should this be based on Random or SecureRandom though? > * Provide an HttpEntity around the MIME4J code (write only, no parsing) with > examples ideally If we do this, I prefer we use a new Maven module, to avoid Maven optional dependencies when we can. 2c, Gary > * Do a release > > What is the overhead of MIME4J for users, if 80%+ are happy with our code, > why force another library on them? > > Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org
