Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: Net::SMTP::SSL is obsolete, use only when necessary

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:

> Second ping. This problem is not going away, so if this solution is not
> acceptable, I'd like to know what needs to be improved.

Perhaps you needed to actually test with older installation that
people have, it seems, between pings.  Immediately after this was
merged to 'master', we start getting bug reports X-<.

Eric Biggers' message 

    https://public-inbox.org/git/<20170531222455.GD72735@gmail.com>

seems to indicate that we should cut off at 3.01 not 1.28?

Thanks.

> On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 09:01 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>> Ping. It's a little over a month since I sent this, but I haven't seen
>> any comments. Is this commit good to go?
>> 
>> On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 22:37 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>> > Net::SMTP itself can do the necessary SSL and STARTTLS bits just fine
>> > since version 1.28, and Net::SMTP::SSL is now deprecated. Since 1.28
>> > isn't that old yet, keep the old code in place and use it when
>> > necessary.
>> > ...
>> > diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
>> > index eea0a517f7..0d90439d9a 100755
>> > --- a/git-send-email.perl
>> > +++ b/git-send-email.perl
>> > @@ -1353,10 +1353,12 @@ EOF
>> >  			die __("The required SMTP server is not properly defined.")
>> >  		}
>> >  
>> > +		require Net::SMTP;
>> > +		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("1.28");