Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: remove documented requirement for Net::SMTP::SSL

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 01:57:59 +0000

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 28 2019, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Todd Zullinger <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> Something like:
> >>
> >> diff --git i/git-send-email.perl w/git-send-email.perl
> >> index 24859a7bc3..84ac03994d 100755
> >> --- i/git-send-email.perl
> >> +++ w/git-send-email.perl
> >> @@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ sub send_message {
> >>  		}
> >>
> >>  		require Net::SMTP;
> >> -		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("2.34");
> >> +		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = Net::SMTP->can('starttls') ? 0 : 1;
> >>  		$smtp_domain ||= maildomain();
> >>
> >>  		if ($smtp_encryption eq 'ssl') {
> >
> > Looks much better to me.
> 
> Same, but to bikeshed a bit, at this point we can just do:
>     
>     diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
>     index 24859a7bc3..4ad2091a49 100755
>     --- a/git-send-email.perl
>     +++ b/git-send-email.perl
>     @@ -1468 +1467,0 @@ sub send_message {
>     -               my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("2.34");
>     @@ -1485 +1484 @@ sub send_message {
>     -                       if ($use_net_smtp_ssl) {
>     +                       if (Net::SMTP->can('starttls')) {
>     @@ -1507 +1506 @@ sub send_message {
>     -                               if ($use_net_smtp_ssl) {
>     +                               if (Net::SMTP->can('starttls')) {

Higher probability of a typo slipping through the cracks, though :)

(I was just bit by a similar case with hashes that would've been
 caught by "use fields")