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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@jupiterrise.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 04:12:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4lxrnsza.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170407045427.rqrqdt5mxzudonzo@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2017 00:54:27 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think I'm leaning towards the very first patch I posted, that assumes
> 7.11.0 and later. And then hold off on the others for a few years. In
> terms of "number of ifdefs removed" we could go further, but I think it
> was the first patch that removes a lot of the really questionable bits
> (like silently ignoring security-related features).

I do not have problems with setting cut-off at 7.11.0; I do not
foresee anybody who actively maintains a port for a platform whose
cURL is older than that version would step up ;-)

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-14 11:12 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
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 [this message]

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