2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>: > 惠轶群 <huiyi...@gmail.com> 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? >> # Plan >> So I propose to implement following: >> - Allow user to send mail via a [`mailto` >> link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailto). so that users could >> complete the mail in their favorite email clients such as gmail, mutt, >> alpine and even gmail for android through > > IIRC, GMail on Android is incapable of sending a "text/plain", so > that part may not fly well. Really? As much as I known, GMail on Android is capable of sending a "text/plain" while Inbox is not. >> - Build a simple email client (maybe a web components based web app or >> wxwidgets based GUI client, they are both cross-platform) which is >> easy to use for sending patch without disrupting the mailbox format. > > I suspect it would yield a better result if the plan were to update > a popular email client and make it possible to tell it to read an > existing text file (i.e. mbox) without corrupting its contents. > People do not have to learn a new mail client if done that way. Maybe a plugin? I'm not sure. If above `mail-to` is implemented, user could just using any mail client, but a mail client adaptive for patch would be better: - Do not allow user to edit the diff part - always 'plan/text' - visual > That may not be a "Git" project, but GSoC is not limited to Git ;-) Sorry, but I do not really mean to implement a general mail client. In fact, this is a GUI front end for git send-mail and may be placed under contrib/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
