Re: compiling option for nomule
Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> My question is then, what is this feature good for, especially if mule
> is off?
End-of-line type detection. Compressed/encrypted file support.
Has the compressed/encrypted thing ever been more than theory or
wishful thinking? 21.4 and previous versions had limitations in
coding systems that prevented proper implementation of
compression/decompression. I know that 21.5 has support for zlib
compressed streams, but even that seems to be proof-of-concept because
it doesn't support gzipped files, only raw zlib compression.
> And what sort of harm can be done with the feature enabled?
Binaries destruction.
As long as a form of autodetection is on by default. Which, knowing
Mule, is probably the case.