Re: [PATCH][v2] http authentication via prompts (with correct line lengths)

[Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>]

2009/3/12 Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Mike Ralphson wrote:
>
>> Elsewhere we seem to protect use of CURL_NETRC_OPTIONAL by checking for
>> LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070907. I have an ancient curl here
>> (curl-7.9.3-2ssl) which doesn't seem to have this option, so building next
>> is broken on AIX for me from this morning (c33976cb).
>>
>> Is there a specific minimum version of curl we want to continue
>> supporting?
>
> May I suggest perhaps require a libcurl version that is no older than three
> years or something like that?

It might be a plan 8-) Though I was thinking technically in terms of
features we think git needs. Though doubtless there are several
security fixes it would be beneficial to keep up to date with.

> (spoiler: libcurl 7.9.3 is more than seven years old!)

And still the release IBM package for AIX [1]. 8-(

The summary of automatic builds (http://curl.haxx.se/auto/) is very
nicely presented. Is that custom code?

Thanks for curl, even the old versions!

Mike

[1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html