Switch to angstrom ? about mrmime

[nojb]

Thanks for the reply! I am working on some related things currently and would be quite interested in making Mr. MIME use Angstrom. Would you consider a pull request in this direction ?

[dinosaure]

Mr. MIME try to parse an e-mail which one has different layers. Some layer can be described only with Angstrom (and it's why we have the same implementation than Angstrom). However, others layers need a more precise parsing (encoding, UTF-8, and, for the future, others encodings like UTF-7) or some faster process than Angstrom (like ocamllex in top of some assumptions).

For all of these, the best is to know the type of Angstrom.t (the record which one have only one function) to hack inside.

Then, I started Mr. MIME when Angstrom just appeared from the hood. I think, now, we can rework Mr. MIME with the scan_state function (which appeared after). However, I'm currently on ocaml-git. I will come back to Mr. MIME (and focus on encoding) and I will do the choice at this time 😃 !

[dinosaure]

Yes, you can ! But just keep in your mind, Mr. MIME is experimental and the interface needs a big improvement. So, you are free to do what you want and we can talk about the best choice then. I think, to switch to Angstrom is not a big deal because I use the same operator for the same purpose - we just need to take care about some details (but don't worry, I have all in my head).

[avsm]

just a note that the new working version of this repo in https://github.com/mirage/mrmime does now use angstrom

[nojb]

Great 😄