Re: [PATCH 2/4] http: add the ability to log progress

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 9, 2024, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20240509170453.GE1708095@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbk5fudw8.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 09:51:51AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > It might also be reasonable to just bump to 7.32.0 as our minimum. The
> > last bump was recent via c28ee09503 (INSTALL: bump libcurl version to
> > 7.21.3, 2024-04-02), and the version picked there was arbitrary-ish (it
> > was something we had happened to depend on accidentally). 7.32.0 is
> > itself almost 11 years old now.
> 
> The last bump was 7.19.5 (May 2009, 14.9 years) to 7.21.3 (Dec 2010,
> 13.3 years).  As 10 is a nice round number, we may even be able to
> pick randomly a slightly newer one, say, 7.35.0 (Mar 2014, 10.0
> years).
> 
> It is in a sense an inferiour way to pick the minimum dependency
> than the choice of 7.32.0, which is backed by "we use this and that,
> which appeared in that version", of course.

I am OK with just using round numbers, too.

The biggest thing for a time-oriented scheme is really what made the cutoff for long-term distro releases. With a 10-year support term, we are often looking at 11 or so years to have made it into a release. OTOH, if somebody using a 10-year-old distro is forced to use a slightly older version of Git to match, IMHO that is not the end of the world.

Bumping to 7.35.0 would also let us simplify some curl-compat code, which is always my real goal. ;)

-Peff