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

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

惠轶群 <huiyiqun@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.

> # 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 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.

That may not be a "Git" project, but GSoC is not limited to Git ;-)