From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 367D1218D72 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=18.9.28.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1728653008; cv=none; b=YNDJo8q52RzwBxYeig7TxB00AUtdi5e/LCLcvmDTOVfUDF99huB8iGfNHQMVaz1o7QQ4pOLGAwq0/AqjbRFAiicriQnvyGY/Bqt881T3/A9pPxsTIbj66JbwiNLZvS0kCczoiq05wCEoayhzCc/d4dyPhByvVOmBL2zlx90PBEk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1728653008; c=relaxed/simple; bh=gQDL2DzV03/AMI+5kzSU3mZaF5KEP8ThDhTcLEFnRAE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=OFYpTxfi+ol0EBi9zyh+U3rnTb9K1amseoiuuSKKt/Uhfl4XwFQwFRiu0xVrOoJ/OOjJ2HKrGLmu2apKD+3ibvquANqvutjj6NlA+3lNlNsK1mIx2dY4TXbeh9v6ChcWPSn+s3qGV8FkMGeEJiBJTNBqizXdyMtiwhAGLSeNg24= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=mit.edu; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mit.edu; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=mit.edu header.i=@mit.edu header.b=ID5M2Fg+; arc=none smtp.client-ip=18.9.28.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=mit.edu Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mit.edu Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=mit.edu header.i=@mit.edu header.b="ID5M2Fg+" Received: from localhost (CASTLE-ON-A-CLOUD.MIT.EDU [18.9.64.24]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as asedeno@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 49BDN9ed028746; Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:23:10 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mit.edu; s=outgoing; t=1728652990; bh=x2K4EjKe2yNMKfmMnhcRR3PQRcqV0h5ijnEVT+1bCgk=; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=ID5M2Fg+nHHIfRCKVukWcH2tVeWXokhP+nD19PRW2HpH8YGyTXrSjLpDLjITRyVHE NyZA0fu88f5Yw+VdUufq0asILdlmA7n3+tv/plxHe+BO1u2MKrIuIlgDqonUlgf/gl pxHrTXGTY8Za2cm3srFKJ/1r122uT4kLNlymkF0tNV2HyvJrG1UvZgpHB19Sy3JiIw YuYfiWKXq9e9RJjANxbRP8Fh81U2LC84kWlA5KWcHZvcUQd1TwBiQvdqDGLG9CR3cP v9sJHu/M2HKtcoW33Zt6gZ3UOH/LiOCUCeBHgkRNRxIApCQK8Vqh5DTRgfG8+eUlok etmcnS4XYHI4A== From: =?UTF-8?q?Alejandro=20R=2E=20Sede=C3=B1o?= To: sandals@crustytoothpaste.net Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, peff@peff.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Update versions of libcurl and Perl Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:23:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20241011132308.2469679-1-asedeno@mit.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.45.2 In-Reply-To: <20241010235621.738239-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> References: <20241010235621.738239-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 23:56:08 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > The libcurl dependency changes come in incremental patches so that if we > have people on unsupported systems, they can simply revert the patches > that they'd like to omit. It also makes the changes easier to review > than one giant commit. ... > brian m. carlson (13): > git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.21.5 > git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0 > git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.34.0 Strictly speaking, the first three of these in the series can be squashed, as support for libcurl older than 7.37.0 is already broken. Reverting any subset of these patches will not achieve the goal of allowing people to get back to a working build. Personally, I'd still prefer to see support maintained, but on a more philosophical level, I agree that this patch series a better course of action. -Alejandro