Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-04-04 Thread Eric Wong
惠轶群 wrote: > 2016-03-28 6:00 GMT+08:00 Eric Wong : > > While Gmail provides SMTP access, it was (last I was told) > > incompatible with two-factor auth; so I've encountered users > > unable to send patches with their normal 2FA-enabled accounts. > >

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong but don't we basically have 4 kinds of users > using git-send-email: > > 1) Those who get it from a binary Windows package (is it even packaged there?) It is. And reportedly working fine. But in the pre-MSYS2

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:17 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: > 2016-03-29 0:49 GMT+08:00 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason : >> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:13 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: >>> 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : 惠轶群

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-28 Thread 惠轶群
2016-03-29 0:49 GMT+08:00 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason : > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:13 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: >> 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : >>> 惠轶群 writes: >>> # Purpose The current implementation of

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 3:13 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: > 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : >> 惠轶群 writes: >> >>> # Purpose >>> The current implementation of send-email is based on perl and has only >>> a tui, it has two problems: >>> -

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-28 Thread 惠轶群
2016-03-28 6:00 GMT+08:00 Eric Wong : > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> 惠轶群 writes: >> > - 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

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-27 Thread Javier Domingo Cansino
> While Gmail provides SMTP access, it was (last I was told) > incompatible with two-factor auth; so I've encountered users > unable to send patches with their normal 2FA-enabled accounts. > > Maybe git hackers at Google have enough pull to lobby Gmail's > web interface to make it easier to send

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-27 Thread Eric Wong
Junio C Hamano wrote: > 惠轶群 writes: > > - 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. >

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-26 Thread 惠轶群
2016-03-26 17:52 GMT+08:00 惠轶群 : > 2016-03-26 14:18 GMT+08:00 Pranit Bauva : >> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:43 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: >>> 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : 惠轶群 writes:

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-26 Thread 惠轶群
To make it clearer: 1. there are so many great mail clients, why not let these experts to handle the dispatch of mail? For example, as a One-time-password user of gmail, I have to generate an app password for each terminal device I'd like to send patch on. It's more important that I could

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-26 Thread 惠轶群
2016-03-26 14:18 GMT+08:00 Pranit Bauva : > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:43 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: >> 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : >>> 惠轶群 writes: >>> # Purpose The current implementation of

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-26 Thread Pranit Bauva
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:43 AM, 惠轶群 wrote: > 2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : >> 惠轶群 writes: >> >>> # Purpose >>> The current implementation of send-email is based on perl and has only >>> a tui, it has two problems: >>> -

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-25 Thread 惠轶群
2016-03-26 2:16 GMT+08:00 Junio C Hamano : > 惠轶群 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. >> -

Re: [GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
惠轶群 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

[GSoC] A late proposal: a modern send-email

2016-03-25 Thread 惠轶群
I know it's tooo late to post proposal here, but I'd like to let my idea known by others. # Summary Although many projects hosted on github or gitlab adopt the fork-and-merge working flow, email is still irreplaceable for its compatibility. However, the send-email module is old and difficult for