This may be true, but like I mentioned during the IRC RFC discussion on third-party components, it’s a case-by-case decision, and I think in this case, SwiftMailer is a fairly reliable library and definitely much better than what we have implemented now. -- Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF
From: Tony Thomas 01tonythomas@gmail.com Reply: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: May 27, 2014 at 12:13:16 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding external libraries to core (SwiftMailer)
So, if we can have the swiftmailer repo added, this would be excellent. It might get worse otherwise, as after this shift, MW can 'only' send emails through swift. A hard dependency, as you quoted earlier.