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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@jupiterrise.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 05:21:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170406092122.titsfyxpucj6xoe4@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6ba17f0-3da9-8699-8d5c-5ebf1eaef00e@jupiterrise.com>

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 11:33:37AM +0200, Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> FWIW I maintain freely available updated git packages for RHEL 3, 4, 5, 6
> and 7.
> 
> They can be found here:
> https://jupiterrise.com/blog/jrpms/
> 
> And direct access here:
> https://jupiterrise.com/jrpms/ (for el3,el4,el5)
> https://jupiterrise.com/jrpmsplus/ (for el6, el7)
> 
> They are built against system versions of curl though a few patches are
> required for 7.10.6 (el3) and 7.12.1 (el4) support.
> Patches can be found in the src.rpm, though I can also post them here as
> patch series, they cover more than just curl.
> 
> I don't use the el3 and el4 versions much any more and el5 use will also
> drop of now as I'm busy converting machines from el5 to el7.

Thanks for sharing, that's a really interesting data point.

I'm not quite sure what to take away from it, though. Either "yes,
somebody really is using Git with antique versions of curl". Or "even
the antique people are giving up el4, and it might be reasonable to
start requiring curl >= 7.11.0".

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-06  9:21 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 [this message]
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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