On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Thomas Adam <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 05:13:53PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: >> So have we come to a consensus about the best solution here? >> >> I'm perfectly happy to send a reversion patch because to be honest >> hacking on a bunch of perl to handle special mail cases is not my idea >> of fun spare time hacking ;-) >> >> I guess the full solution is to make Mail::Address a hard dependency? > > This is what I was suggesting, and then as a follow-up, addressing the point > that there's a bunch of require() hacks to also get around needing > hard-dependencies. I don't know what the right move is here, but just saying that this could also be built on top of my "Git::Error" wrapper which I added in "Makefile: replace perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules" which is currently cooking. I.e. we'd just ship a copy of Email::Valid and Mail::Address in perl/Git/FromCPAN/, use a wrapper to load them, and then we wouldn't need to if/else this at the code level, just always use the module, and it would work even on core perl.
