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
next prev parent 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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