[PATCH 0 of 3] Improve email address parsing

[Sune Foldager]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 19:53 +0200, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> This series improves email address parsing in Mercurial, particularly
>> for use with the patchbomb extension. It's an improvement over version 2
>> of my multiple addresses patch, incorporating Martin Geisler's feedback.
> 
> Can't say I'm excited by this. We've already got a perfectly good,
> clean, safe, and easy to parse way to pass multiple arguments and I
> don't think "mail programs do it differently" is a good argument for us
> to do it differently in exactly one place. 

This was also my original objection: it's a clash of conventions.
Mercurial's repeat-the-option convention and the email program (hg isn't
one) convention of specifying multiple addresses.

Of course you can do so in the config file, but that's a different story.

/Sune