Re: [RFC] dropping support for ancient versions of curl

> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Tom G. Christensen <tgc@jupiterrise.com> wrote:
> Whoah. So my assumption in
> <CACBZZX78oKU5HuBEqb9qLy7--wcwhC_mW6x7Q+tB4suxohSCsQ@mail.gmail.com>
> that nobody was compiling this & thus not reporting failures was
> false. Rather there's an entire community & distribution mechanism
> around patching git for older EL versions, but the patches aren't
> making it upstream.
> 
> $ grep -h -e ^Subject -e ^Date *patch
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:34:11 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/7] Make NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER behave more like
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:02:02 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/7] Install man pages when NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER is used
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:42:50 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 3/7] Allow svnrdump_sim.py to be used with Python 2.2
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:31:56 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 4/7] Handle missing HTTP_CONNECTCODE in curl < 7.10.7
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:32:51 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 5/7] Add support for gnupg < 1.4
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:15:13 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 6/7] Handle missing CURLINFO_SSL_DATA_{IN,OUT}
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:26:54 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 7/7] Do not use curl_easy_strerror with curl < 7.12.0
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:24:44 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Restore vc-git.el for basic compatibility on EL-5
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:03:36 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: Ignore cvsps-2.2b1 Branches: output
> 
> > Patches can be found in the src.rpm, though I can also post them here as
> > patch series, they cover more than just curl.
> >
> > I don't use the el3 and el4 versions much any more and el5 use will also
> > drop of now as I'm busy converting machines from el5 to el7.
> 
> It would be great to have them on-list, as far as I can tell they were
> never submitted? Is there some time/administrative reason for why
> you're not submitting them? Some of these are many years old, it would
> be great to have them on-list for wider review & included so vanilla
> git works on these platforms.