Re: [PATCH 1/1] imap-send: include strbuf.h

Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de> writes:

Please don't be. Duplicated reports are much much better than no reports due to "well, this must have been reported already by somebody else". Thanks for reporting.

I do not think so. The original breakage was because it implicitly relied on the fact that http.h, which is included only when USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND is defined, happens to include strbuf.h, even though the code that does not rely on USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND do unconditionally rely on the strbuf facility being available to them, possibly combined with the fact that not too many people build imap-send with USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND disabled.

So the conditional thing still rely on an implicit assumption you are making, i.e. "http.h will forever be including strbuf.h", which is fragile when people from time to time come and make sweeping "header clean-up". Which is a good thing. But we need to be careful, and one way to help us being careful against such a header clean-up is to make sure you include what you use yourself, instead of assuming that somebody else you include will keep doing so.