Re: [RFC] imap-send: escape backslash in password

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:54:53AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > For comparison, nothing older than curl 7.19.4 will work for building
> > Git since v2.12.0, as we added some unconditional uses of CURLPROTO_*
> > there. Nobody seems to have noticed or complained. I pointed this out a
> > few months ago[1] and suggested we clean up some of the more antiquated
> > #if blocks in http.c that don't even build. There was some complaint
> > that we should keep even these ancient versions working, but the
> > compile error is still in "master".
> >
> > So it's not clear to me that anybody cares about going that far back
> > (which is mid-2009), but I'd guess that 2013 might cause some problems.
> >
> > [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20170404025438.bgxz5sfmrawqswcj@sigill.intra.peff.net/
> >     if you're curious (you were offline for a while at that time, I
> >     think).
> 
> Thanks for digging.  It would not help the issue on this thread at
> all.  While I agree with your conclusion in the quoted thread:
> 
>     I think it might be nice to declare a "too old" version, though,
>     just so we can stop adding _new_ ifdefs. Maybe 7.11.1 is that
>     version now, and in another few years we can bump to 7.16.0. :)
> 
> it appears that we silently declared it to 7.19.4 and found out that
> nobody complained, without us having to wait for a few years?

Yeah, I think the 7.19.4 breakage was discussed after I wrote that (and
after investigating, I think the 7.16.0 cutoff is probably pretty
reasonable even without that). I do think it's worth addressing. I just
sent a series:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20170809120024.7phdjzjv54uv5dpz@sigill.intra.peff.net/

-Peff