Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have not looked deeply at this, but the error you're getting means
> "we tried to load it before and failed, and here you are trying
> again".
>
> This is almost definitely due to this line in git-send-email:
>
> if (eval { require Net::SMTP; 1 }) {
>
> And more generally, this code is all buggy:
>
> 4 matches for "eval.*require" in buffer: git-send-email.perl
> 153:my $have_email_valid = eval { require Email::Valid; 1 };
> 154:my $have_mail_address = eval { require Mail::Address; 1 };
> 1118: if (eval { require Net::Domain; 1 }) {
> 1129: if (eval { require Net::SMTP; 1 }) {
>
> Well, "buggy" in the sense that we're just happy-go-lucky trying to
> load these modules, and if they have an error we don't report it, then
> when we try to load them again perl just emits a generic error saying
> you're trying to require() something that already failed somewhere
> before...
Thanks for the discussion. My short summary from reading the thread
from the sideline is:
* "eval { require module; 1 }" pattern seems to have spread by
copying and pasting without thinking, all of which should be
corrected not to retry;
* The error OP encountered is not an issue in git-send-email
per-se, but was made harder to diagnose due to the above.
I think we still lack the definite "here is the right way to fix
these not to retry" patch for application, but anything else I
missed?