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