Re: [Uta] MTA-STS-03 review

Jeremy Harris <jgh@wizmail.org> Wed, 22 March 2017 20:28 UTC

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On 22/03/17 19:50, Daniel Margolis wrote:
> But I'd appreciate feedback from the wider peanut gallery here, too.
> Parsing key/value pairs isn't hard, but do people prefer that (is there a
> standard parser?) versus taking a dependency on an existing JSON lib?

>From the Exim developer's point of view, I much prefer name/value pairs
since we have existing code doing that.  We don't have any JSON and
having to add some would be one more barrier against implementing STS.
-- 
Cheers,
  Jeremy