Re: [Erlyaws-list] support for SOAP DIME attachments

[Anders N. <and...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Steve Vinoski <vi...@ie...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Anders Nygren <and...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi
>> In commit 65bf36a597ac26559d17 support for SOAP DIME attachments were removed
>> with the motivation
>>
>> "Remove DIME support. We're cleaning up dialyzer errors in Yaws and the
>> DIME code had some problems, so we decided to drop it rather than try
>> to fix it since we don't believe anyone's using it. Microsoft has
>> dropped support for DIME anyway, recommending MTOM instead."
>>
>> I am the original author of the DIME support and we have a customer
>> that is using it.
>>
>> Is there any chance to get the DIME support reinserted?
>> I will take a look at any dialyzer errors.
>
> There's always a chance. :-)
>
>> I realize that it is not the most popular feature but it would have
>> been nice with
>> a warning on the mailing list before removing it.
>
> True. But in this case, it seemed that DIME was so obsolete the
> likelihood of anyone using it was extremely low since nobody ever
> talked about it on the list or asked about it, and IIRC fixing the
> dialyzer issues for that part of the code seemed to require more
> effort than was justified. But I'll take a look and see if I can't
> bring it back in.
>

We are still using a patched 1.67, but have no dialyzer issues for the DIME
parts.
Can You give me any hints how to convince git to give me the version just before
You removed the DIME support an I will take a look at it.

/Anders

> --steve
>