Re: [PATCH][v2] http authentication via prompts (with correct line lengths)

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Mike Ralphson wrote:

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May I suggest perhaps require a libcurl version that is no older than three 
years or something like that?

It might be a plan 8-) Though I was thinking technically in terms of 
features we think git needs. Though doubtless there are several security 
fixes it would be beneficial to keep up to date with.

Right, but if you set a common lowest denominator first you know what features 
to expect to be there _at least_, then there might of course be a set of 
additional ones brought by newer versions. It would reduce the amount of 
conditionals in the code and what-if-this-is-used scenarios (in the code and 
in support/docs). It also reduces the risks of git getting odd problems due to 
very old libcurl bugs.

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(spoiler: libcurl 7.9.3 is more than seven years old!)

And still the release IBM package for AIX [1]. 8-(

However, someone who's building/getting git might also be able to build/get a 
newer libcurl.

The summary of automatic builds (http://curl.haxx.se/auto/) is very nicely 
presented. Is that custom code?

The code is custom (perl) but present in the curl CVS repo for the web site 
and could probably fairly easy be adapted for other purposes/projects.

In the curl project we provide scripts for distributed automatic tests and 
then we have a central server that receives the reports by mail and the 
automatic summary script displays the status of those tests on that page.

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  / daniel.haxx.se