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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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.)