Re: Feature request - base64 Filename Safe Alphabet

[Jim Meyering]

Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is an attempt at making a base64.c that supports the context
> structure for coreutils but still presents a four-argument decode
> interface for gnulib.
>
> It doesn't address the differences in newline handling, and it's
> definitely less efficient for four-argument decode calls.  Is this the
> direction you were thinking for a merge of the two?

Thanks for working on that.
You be the judge, considering Simon's position from January:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/8670/focus=12523

Sorry I didn't dig that up initially.
Since his packages are the main consumer other than coreutils,
if you make him happy, I'll probably be happy, too ;-)