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From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	frank@gevaerts.be
Subject: Re: [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 16:03:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170404230304.GE189807@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704050043370.4268@virtualbox>

On 04/05, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
> 
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Brandon Williams wrote:
> 
> > I'm all for seeing a patch like this applied.  I agree that we can't
> > expect the world to be running the most up-to-date version of curl but
> > we should be able to select some "oldest" version we will support which
> > can be bumped up every couple of years.  
> > 
> > I mean, ensuring that you are running with an up-to-date version of curl
> > is really important when it comes to all of the security fixes that have
> > been made in each revision.
> 
> I am not in the business of dictating to others what software they have to
> run. I am in the business of maintaining Git for Windows. And part of that
> job is to drag along code that is maybe not the most elegant, but works.
> 
> The patch in question resolves such a wart. Sure, it would be a cleanup.
> Is it a huge maintenance burden to keep those few #ifdef's, though?
> Absolutely not.

haha, very true.  Of course I'm stating my opinion based on my limited
experience and work environment.

-- 
Brandon Williams

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-04 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-04  2:54 [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl Jeff King
2017-04-04  3:08 ` Jeff King
2017-04-04  5:44   ` Jessie Hernandez
2017-04-04  8:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-04  8:33   ` Jeff King
2017-04-04 10:44     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-04 11:54       ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-04 14:06         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-04 16:53           ` Brandon Williams
2017-04-04 22:46             ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-04 23:03               ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2017-04-04 23:03               ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-05  8:49                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-05  9:29                   ` Jeff King
2017-04-04 20:16           ` Jeff King
2017-04-04 13:32 ` Frank Gevaerts
2017-04-05  9:33 ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 10:51   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-05 13:04     ` [PATCH 0/7] Patches to support older RHEL releases Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 1/7] Make NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER behave more like ExtUtils::MakeMaker Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 2/7] Install man pages when NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER is used Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 3/7] Allow svnrdump_sim.py to be used with Python 2.2 Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:40         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-05 14:36           ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 4/7] Handle missing HTTP_CONNECTCODE in curl < 7.10.7 Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:50         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-05 15:58           ` Franke, Knut
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 5/7] Add support for gnupg < 1.4 Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:45         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-13  6:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-13 15:17           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 6/7] Handle missing CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_{IN,OUT} Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:52         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-05 13:04       ` [PATCH 7/7] Do not use curl_easy_strerror with curl < 7.12.0 Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-05 13:53         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-06  9:18         ` Jeff King
2017-04-13  6:28           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-13 10:52             ` Jacob Keller
2017-04-05 13:04     ` [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-06  0:53     ` brian m. carlson
2017-04-06  1:16       ` Todd Zullinger
2017-04-06  9:29       ` Jeff King
2017-04-07 11:18         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-10 18:22           ` Jeff King
2017-04-06  9:21   ` Jeff King
2017-04-06 16:43     ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-04-07  4:54       ` Jeff King
2017-04-14 11:12         ` Junio C Hamano

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