From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:54:08 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704041351350.4268@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5D2cYf0-ob_Da0EsxRtZHfegezPtCGA10-sjfi0A+AoQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> I think it's completely fine to include your patch as-is. At some
> point we need to pass the burden of dealing with these old software
> versions, saying that you should use a <10 year old library isn't
> unreasonable. Anyone packaging new git on RHEL5 or derivatives can
> just package a newer libcurl as well.
But how much maintenance burden is it, really? Is the continued use of
those #ifdef's really worth this much discussion, let alone applying a
patch that may break users who have so far been happy?
It would be a different thing if we had to have hacks to support old cURL
versions, where we need to ship entire >10kB source files that tap into
internal data structures that may, or may not have changed. Such a hack, I
would be happy to discuss when we could possibly remove it.
But a couple of #ifdef's? C'mon, man, we can carry this *without sweat*
indefinitely ;-)
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-04 11:54 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 [this message]
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
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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