Re: git-send-mail in sh

Ryan Anderson wrote:

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:45:41AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

quoted

Finally giving up on git-send-email (I won't install the 6 perl-modules 
it requires and I don't know perl enough to remove the need for them), I 
hacked up a replacement in sh. It's more aptly named as well. ;)

Scanning the list, 2 are related to option handling (one of which is
builtin), one isn't used (Data::Dumper), and two are related to sending
valid emails.

When I try to install Email::Valid (using apt) it wants an additional 
two modules. Mail::Sendmail wants one other, so that's Data::Dumper, the 
two actually used and the three those two use. Six, for short.

The email address verification is ridiculously hard to get
correct, so using pre-written code for that seemed justified.

But it isn't necessary to validate it to such exactness. Nothing worse 
will happen than the user chiding himself for his butterfingers if 
he/she makes a mistake.

Besides, I think typos are by far the most common error. Those are 
usually valid email addresses while still not being correct.

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