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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin" <NMoreyChaisemartin@suse.de>,
	"Tom G . Christensen" <tgc@jupiterrise.com>,
	"Mischa POSLAWSKY" <git@shiar.nl>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] drop support for ancient curl
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:19:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPtqlsnn/xYoS+7L@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8atovbc.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 09:21:11AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > So modulo the commit message tweaks that Junio suggested, this all looks
> > fine. I actually think my original "#error on too-old curl" is still
> > reasonable. Yes, people whose distro has backported all of these
> > features could possibly still use it. But in that case they likely know
> > what's going on and can rip out the #error. It seems much more likely
> > to me that it _won't_ work, and they'll get confused by obscure errors
> > when they try to use an old curl.
> >
> > But I don't feel too stronlgy about it either way.
> 
> Me neither.  Those who are vanilla would not be helped by having it,
> as their build would fail if their cURL is too old anyway even
> without it.  Those who backported would have a build that may or may
> not work, but diagnosing it is part of the job of backporting their
> cURL anyway.  So in practice, I think "#error if you are older than
> X" primarily would serve documentation purposes (which may be worth
> doing, but requirements listed in INSTALL would probably be a better
> alternative anyway).

Yeah, it is purely for documentation to help people who are confused by
a broken build. But I agree that INSTALL is probably reasonable there
(not to mention that the whole point is that these versions are so old
hardly anybody should be using them anyway). So let's forget about the
#error thing, then.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-24  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 173+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-09 12:00 [PATCH 0/4] dropping support for older curl Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:01 ` [PATCH 1/4] http: drop support for curl < 7.11.1 Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] http: drop support for curl < 7.16.0 Jeff King
2017-08-09 17:29   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-09 21:13     ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 17:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-09 18:03     ` Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-08-09 21:17       ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 21:29         ` Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-08-09 21:49           ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 21:15     ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4 Jeff King
2017-08-09 13:14   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-08-09 13:38     ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 13:49       ` [PATCH 5/4] curl: remove ifdef'd code never used with curl >=7.19.4 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-08-09 17:34   ` [PATCH 3/4] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4 Stefan Beller
2017-08-09 21:19     ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 12:36   ` Mischa POSLAWSKY
2017-08-10 17:34     ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] http: #error on too-old curl Jeff King
2017-08-09 17:37   ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-09 21:42 ` [PATCH 0/4] dropping support for older curl Johannes Schindelin
2017-08-09 21:47   ` Jeff King
2017-08-10  9:01     ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-10  9:36     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-08-10 21:33       ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 22:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-10 23:09           ` Jeff King
2017-08-11  0:17             ` Jeff King
     [not found]       ` <CAHVLzcnnrABmkYNg31Aq99NgBbyuCKEM60pHGygyjXbjmaUEYQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-08-14 21:50         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-08-10 20:33     ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-10 21:32       ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 22:23         ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-10 22:54           ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 23:17             ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-10 23:23               ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 23:36                 ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-11 16:37                   ` [PATCH 0/2] http: handle curl with vendor backports Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-11 22:15                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-12  6:20                       ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-20  8:47                       ` Jeff King
2017-08-20 16:28                         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 15:41                           ` Jeff King
2017-08-11 16:37                   ` [PATCH 1/2] http: Fix handling of missing CURLPROTO_* Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-12  0:30                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-12  9:04                       ` Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-20  8:59                       ` Jeff King
2017-08-11 16:37                   ` [PATCH 2/2] http: use a feature check to enable GSSAPI delegation control Tom G. Christensen
2017-08-09 23:39   ` [PATCH 0/4] dropping support for older curl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
     [not found] ` <87zib8g8ub.fsf@gmail.com>
2017-08-10 10:04   ` Dropping support for older perl Tom G. Christensen
2021-07-21 22:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] drop support for ancient curl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-21 22:22   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.11.1 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-21 22:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-21 22:22   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.16.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-21 22:22   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-21 23:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-21 22:22   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.3 and < 7.16.4 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-21 23:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-21 22:22   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] http: rename CURLOPT_FILE to CURLOPT_WRITEDATA Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-21 23:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-21 22:39   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] drop support for ancient curl Junio C Hamano
2021-07-21 22:56   ` brian m. carlson
2021-07-22  7:09     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-22 22:56       ` brian m. carlson
2021-07-23  7:17         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-22  6:27   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-07-23 10:16   ` Jeff King
2021-07-23 16:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-23 16:49       ` Randall S. Becker
2021-07-24  1:19       ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-07-30  9:31   ` [PATCH v3 0/7] drop support for ancient curl, improve version checks Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 1/7] http: drop support for curl < 7.11.1 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 2/7] http: drop support for curl < 7.16.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 3/7] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 4/7] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.3 and <= 7.16.4 (or <7.17.0) (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 16:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 5/7] http: drop support for curl < 7.18.0 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 16:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 6/7] http: rename CURLOPT_FILE to CURLOPT_WRITEDATA Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30  9:31     ` [PATCH v3 7/7] http: centralize the accounting of libcurl dependencies Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 16:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-30 17:59     ` [PATCH v4 0/5] drop support for ancient curl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 17:59       ` [PATCH v4 1/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.11.1 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 17:59       ` [PATCH v4 2/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.16.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 22:28         ` Andrei Rybak
2021-09-11 14:32           ` Jeff King
2021-09-11 21:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-11 21:58               ` Jeff King
2021-07-30 17:59       ` [PATCH v4 3/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.4 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 17:59       ` [PATCH v4 4/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.19.3 and < 7.17.0 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 17:59       ` [PATCH v4 5/5] http: rename CURLOPT_FILE to CURLOPT_WRITEDATA Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-30 19:03       ` [PATCH v4 0/5] drop support for ancient curl Junio C Hamano
2021-07-30 19:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-30 22:49           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-08 15:31       ` [PATCH 0/5] post-v2.33 "drop support for ancient curl" follow-up Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-08 15:31         ` [PATCH 1/5] http: drop support for curl < 7.18.0 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-09 22:58           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-08 15:31         ` [PATCH 2/5] http: correct curl version check for CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-08 19:22           ` Jeff King
2021-09-09 23:12             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 14:19               ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 14:30                 ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 14:37                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:28                   ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 15:45                     ` Daniel Stenberg
2021-09-10 19:41                       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 21:57                         ` Daniel Stenberg
2021-09-08 15:31         ` [PATCH 3/5] http: correct version check for CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2_0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-08 19:27           ` Jeff King
2021-09-08 15:31         ` [PATCH 4/5] http: centralize the accounting of libcurl dependencies Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-08 19:31           ` Jeff King
2021-09-09 17:40             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-09 19:26               ` Jeff King
2021-09-08 15:31         ` [PATCH 5/5] http: don't hardcode the value of CURL_SOCKOPT_OK Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-09 23:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-09 23:22             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-08 19:32         ` [PATCH 0/5] post-v2.33 "drop support for ancient curl" follow-up Jeff King
2021-09-10 11:04         ` [PATCH v2 0/8] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 1/8] INSTALL: don't mention the "curl" executable at all Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 14:53             ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 2/8] INSTALL: mention that we need libcurl 7.19.4 or newer to build Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 14:54             ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 16:56               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 17:46                 ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 3/8] Makefile: drop support for curl < 7.9.8 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:04             ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 4/8] http: drop support for curl < 7.18.0 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 5/8] http: correct version check for CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:09             ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 15:20               ` Daniel Stenberg
2021-09-10 15:41                 ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 17:19                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 6/8] http: correct curl version check for CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 17:00             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 7/8] http: centralize the accounting of libcurl dependencies Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:15             ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 11:04           ` [PATCH v2 8/8] http: don't hardcode the value of CURL_SOCKOPT_OK Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:17             ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 14:37           ` [PATCH v2 0/8] post-v2.33 "drop support for ancient curl" follow-up Jeff King
2021-09-10 15:08             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 15:20               ` Jeff King
2021-09-10 16:52           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 17:06             ` Randall S. Becker
2021-09-10 17:42             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-10 17:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 17:32             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 19:05               ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-10 19:49                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-10 17:47             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34           ` [PATCH v3 0/9] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 1/9] INSTALL: don't mention the "curl" executable at all Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 2/9] INSTALL: reword and copy-edit the "libcurl" section Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 3/9] INSTALL: mention that we need libcurl 7.19.4 or newer to build Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 4/9] Makefile: drop support for curl < 7.9.8 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 5/9] http: drop support for curl < 7.18.0 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 6/9] http: correct version check for CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 7/9] http: correct curl version check for CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 8/9] http: centralize the accounting of libcurl dependencies Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11  9:34             ` [PATCH v3 9/9] http: don't hardcode the value of CURL_SOCKOPT_OK Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-11 14:46             ` [PATCH v3 0/9] post-v2.33 "drop support for ancient curl" follow-up Jeff King
2021-09-12 19:01               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-13 14:51             ` [PATCH v4 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 1/9] INSTALL: don't mention the "curl" executable at all Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 2/9] INSTALL: reword and copy-edit the "libcurl" section Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 3/9] INSTALL: mention that we need libcurl 7.19.4 or newer to build Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 4/9] Makefile: drop support for curl < 7.9.8 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 5/9] http: drop support for curl < 7.18.0 (again) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 6/9] http: correct version check for CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 7/9] http: correct curl version check for CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 8/9] http: centralize the accounting of libcurl dependencies Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 14:51               ` [PATCH v4 9/9] http: don't hardcode the value of CURL_SOCKOPT_OK Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-13 17:02               ` [PATCH v4 0/9] post-v2.33 "drop support for ancient curl" follow-up Jeff King
2021-09-13 17:41                 ` Junio C Hamano

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