From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:16:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git List To: =?utf-8?B?5oOg6L22576k?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 25 19:16:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ajWHf-0001JT-QE for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:16:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753934AbcCYSQS convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:16:18 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp0.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:59328 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752190AbcCYSQQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:16:16 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2EB4F37C; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:16:15 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=Q4APojNcvQ/2 W1yl+SWIfIuoaXM=; b=aeQUuRpYm/2TT+mjwKSPewjdrGYnE661FvUETotYBhxQ Gf9zJrJEexUAanwoBhx2pDGrrIggFlIRQ9BTcuunCnLZkaEuikaXG/mHgRNxckbi 6cnR9cZsNPpyl2b/j7/1oJfhXfWKXzu2iRLLrL3uFhL4KAbosWRyM5TI+3Q3MLM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=rHhBrD xtbpmGoa+TeXvzNSXmcgpg0G11LGyeX5bybT5QeYCJaDFDdNXN4AP51/vb8gd12W Px/CeHyq8TM6FCdqWbfaIJP1aLJmIkiEz+p1mz8sAUNrmUjShUJcLjSBHIoEZXB7 +bCE48KnNNv3refpXNk4ZS/zFnyuAFYYLjF68= Received: from pb-smtp0.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274D04F37B; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:16:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.1.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp0.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 137B64F37A; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:16:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?B?IuaDoOi9tue+pCIncw==?= message of "Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:59:08 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A8DFEB7E-F2B5-11E5-BBD4-E95C6BB36C07-77302942!pb-smtp0.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =E6=83=A0=E8=BD=B6=E7=BE=A4 writes: > # Purpose > The current implementation of send-email is based on perl and has onl= y > a tui, it has two problems: > - user must install a ton of dependencies before submit a single patc= h. > - 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. > # 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. > - Build a simple email client (maybe a web components based web app o= r > 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. That may not be a "Git" project, but GSoC is not limited to Git ;-)