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From: "Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@jupiterrise.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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 18:43:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef64656b-12d7-a041-e1b9-ce83f8cbd2fc@jupiterrise.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170406092122.titsfyxpucj6xoe4@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 06/04/17 11:21, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 11:33:37AM +0200, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
>> 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".
>

I do not know of anyone who actually need to have the latest git on 
their el3 or el4 system, myself included.
I'm not here to champion the inclusion of support for el3 and el4, there 
is no point.
I kept git buildable on those platforms since I could do so with minimal 
effort and good testresults, but this was entirely for my own satisfaction.

I know of no users of the packages that I make available other than 
myself and my work place (only el5 and later, soon just el6 and later).

There is not currently any patches needed to use git on el5 with curl 
7.15.5. The only thing not working out of the box in 2.12.2 would be the 
emacs integration.

If you must drop support for old curl releases then from my perspective 
the cutoff should be 7.19.7 at the latest since that is what ships with 
RHEL 6 and that is still supported by Red Hat.
Other long term supported Linux releases may have different ideas, I 
wouldn't know.

-tgc

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-06 16:43 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 [this message]
2017-04-07  4:54       ` Jeff King
2017-04-14 11:12         ` Junio C Hamano

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