From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Ralphson Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] http authentication via prompts (with correct line lengths) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:12:11 +0000 Message-ID: References: <49B5AF67.6050508@gmail.com> <7v1vt6dxg9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <49B5F0BA.3070806@gmail.com> <7v63ihdgy6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Mike Gaffney , git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Stenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 12 10:14:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lhgz9-00055V-Nv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752508AbZCLJMX (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:12:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751716AbZCLJMV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:12:21 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f122.google.com ([209.85.221.122]:55564 "EHLO mail-qy0-f122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751451AbZCLJMT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:12:19 -0400 Received: by qyk28 with SMTP id 28so577730qyk.33 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:12:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PUuP+mwVpbKCCaGFwBPZWn0TiFM+rcNoGnztLx/hM3A=; b=rHo9gDWWorQxDDT4uBYSE2DK6bJVOJKAwi0/F9Yz0aUCne4EDHqcsEunvhFeHeABMd 816KQ0dXlx0YeB64qVgEvyXwYtGNpJ+pjTOO6QwiHSDxVqW+yS+2Gdtlew2edWoXGl6G Vi2ntF+MSo+xOPkX44rWSLQawEEjZlvrN5fjM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x2u947HFT28BDPNAKaUivHEZn/aYJ0DBUq7zQqZhgxvQkHOnlR3bWwd5olISWHlrvO BgKjUN8C7Hh35q/Ze1YQmJZYKGH/Zj38NWoY/qXunZ2FW8m6MRcwUUOXJW5GvtmTnzj0 5g6CtSQ2gm10gjOb4xD9MY2LOPrk7XsTFgGiM= Received: by 10.224.2.141 with SMTP id 13mr4172944qaj.299.1236849131541; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:12:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/3/12 Daniel Stenberg : > 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