On 26-04-2025 12:35 am, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Authen::SASL now finally supports XOAUTH2 and OAUTHBEARER thanks to Erik >>>> and Julian! (Link: https://github.com/gbarr/perl-authen-sasl/commit/958a3aa165d30cf4e3cbb36dc45306de627aa13f) >>> >>> And it's official: https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.1800 >> >> Wonderful. >> >> We tend to, however, try to cater to those whose distros are slow to >> adjust to upstream changes. What's the ETA for the updated module >> to major distros? > > To be honest, I have *no* idea. I think Debian is stabilizing Trixie > now, so maybe it's in the one that will be after that (in 2 years?). > > You could however decide to support XOAUTH2 and OAUTHBEARER only when > they are available? Then you don't need to increase the minimum > library requirement: there's no API difference between 2.1700 (the > current version until today) and 2.1800 (the newly released version). > So if you were to probe existence of Authen::SASL::Perl::XOAUTH2 > and/or Authen::SASL::Perl::OAUTHBEARER, you could conditionally > disable the feature if the probe fails. (Using "eval { require > Authen::SASL::Perl::XOAUTH2; 1 }" should do what you need: return > false if the probe fails; true if it succeeds.) Even if we modify the send-email script, distros slow to adjust will also not update this so soon :). Its more of a wait and watch thing tbh.
