For a long time, we ended up with protracted discussions on the mailing list about what versions of software we should support. Oftentimes, we broke long-obsolete operating system versions by using something shipped slightly more recently. Fortunately, we now have a platform support policy to guide us in our approach to dependencies, so we can make updates without worrying about breaking systems that have not received security support in several years. This series updates our requirements for libcurl to 7.61.0 (the version in RHEL 8) and for Perl to 5.26.0 (the version in 15.6). I considered the mainstream LTS versions of RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, and SLES, but omitted consideration of paid support extended LTS, since we cannot expect Git developers to have to pay a large corporation lots of money just to test functionality. This is in conformance with our policy, which states that versions must be "in line with the version used by other long-term-support distributions", which does not include extended LTS distributions. I plan to send a future series that will add some additional CI jobs in order to be sure that we're testing the major supported distros and avoid regressions. Changes from v1: * Use require instead of use for Perl to avoid enabling features. * Use v5.26 instead of 5.026000. * Squash the INSTALL documentation into the Perl changes. brian m. carlson (12): git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.21.5 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.34.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.39.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.43.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.44.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.52.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.53.0 git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.56.0 INSTALL: document requirement for libcurl 7.61.0 Require Perl 5.26.0 gitweb: make use of s///r INSTALL | 13 +--- contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm | 2 +- contrib/mw-to-git/Git/Mediawiki.pm | 2 +- git-archimport.perl | 2 +- git-curl-compat.h | 98 ------------------------- git-cvsexportcommit.perl | 2 +- git-cvsimport.perl | 2 +- git-cvsserver.perl | 2 +- git-send-email.perl | 2 +- git-svn.perl | 2 +- gitweb/gitweb.perl | 6 +- http.c | 58 --------------- imap-send.c | 4 - perl/Git.pm | 2 +- perl/Git/I18N.pm | 2 +- perl/Git/LoadCPAN.pm | 2 +- perl/Git/Packet.pm | 2 +- t/t0202/test.pl | 2 +- t/t5562/invoke-with-content-length.pl | 2 +- t/t9700/test.pl | 2 +- t/test-terminal.perl | 2 +- 21 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)
