git-core @1.8.4_0: git-send-email requires p5.12-net-smtp-ssl

[dave@…]

When I try git send-email, I get

Can't locate Net/SMTP/SSL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3/darwin-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.3/darwin-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.3/darwin-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.3 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 1093.

[dave@…]

I found ​http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Development_Lifecycle?version=52#Mail-Patch-to-a-distribution-list which describes a workaround at the bottom of the section

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

You mean the part where it says to install that module via cpan? Instead, you should install the module via MacPorts. I can't find a port called p5-net-smtp-ssl so either this module is part of a different port or we need to create that port.

[dave@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

You mean the part where it says to install that module via cpan? Instead, you should install the module via MacPorts.

Well naturally, but as you note, none of the existing ports seem to do the job.

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

it needs its own port (probably easy with cpan2port):

​http://search.cpan.org/~cwest/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01/

but really, git send-email wants to use SMTPS? ick

[dave@…]

it does if I've configured it—as I have—to use GMail's SMTP server. See the last page of "man git-send-email"

[mathias.habluetzel@…]

Potential fix:

$ sudo port install p5.12-net-smtp-ssl
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/git-core/perl/Net/SMTP
$ sudo ln /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4/Net/SMTP/SSL.pm \
 /usr/share/git-core/perl/Net/SMTP/SSL.pm

(context ​http://blog.mathiashabluetzel.ch/2013/09/09/git-send-email-cant-locate-netsmtpssl-pm/)

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[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

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