On 04/04/17 04:54, Jeff King wrote:
A nearby thread raised the question of whether we can rely on a version
of libcurl that contains a particular feature. The version in question
is curl 7.11.1, which came out in March 2004.
My feeling is that this is old enough to stop caring about. Which means
we can drop some of the #ifdefs that clutter the HTTP code (and there's
a patch at the end of this mail dropping support for everything older
than 7.11.1). But that made wonder: how old is too old? I think it's
nice that we don't force people to upgrade to the latest version of
curl. But at some point, if you are running a 13-year-old version of
libcurl, how likely are you to run a brand new version of Git? :)
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.
-tgc