On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:48:51AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > I wonder whether we want to have something like the below patch to give > people a better error message in case they have a version that is too > old now. > [...] > +#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM < 0x073d00 > +# error "Your version of curl is too old. You need to have at least curl 7.61.0" > +#endif IIRC we ran into some interesting situations in the past where some distros had older versions that had backported some features. So Git would continue to compile, even though it was not technically the version we said was needed. And a patch like the one above would break those systems, even they'd otherwise be OK. Now possibly that is a little bit insane and not something we should worry about. I don't have good examples of what kinds of things got backported, but searching the archive for LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM and "backport" yielded this: https://lore.kernel.org/git/4d29d43d458f61c6dabca093f591ad8698ca2ceb.1502462884.git.tgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ and I seem to recall most of the discussion of this was around that author and RHEL/EPEL. -Peff
