On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:13 AM, 惠轶群 <huiyiqun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 惠轶群 <huiyiqun@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> # Purpose >>> The current implementation of send-email is based on perl and has only >>> a tui, it has two problems: >>> - user must install a ton of dependencies before submit a single patch. >>> - tui and parameter are both not quite friendly to new users. >> >> Is "a ton of dependencies" true? "apt-cache show git-email" >> suggests otherwise. Is "a ton of dependencies" truly a problem? >> "apt-get install" would resolve the dependencies for you. > > There are three perl packages needed to send patch through gmail: > - perl-mime-tools > - perl-net-smtp-ssl > - perl-authen-sasl > > Yes, not too many, but is it better none of them? > > What's more, when I try to send mails, I was first disrupted by > "no perl-mime-tools" then by "no perl-net-smtp-ssl or perl-authen-sasl". > Then I think, why not just a mailto link? I think your proposal should clarify a bit who these users are that find it too difficult to install these perl module dependencies. Users on OSX & Windows I would assume, because in the case of Linux distros getting these is the equivalent of an apt-get command away. If installing these dependencies is hard for users perhaps a better thing to focus on is altering the binary builds on Git for platforms that don't have package systems to include these dependencies. In this case it would mean shipping a statically linked OpenSSL since that's what these perl SSL packages eventually depend on. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html