Re: [PATCH 7/7] Do not use curl_easy_strerror with curl < 7.12.0

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:04:24PM +0200, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
>> ...
>> These kinds of interleaved conditionals make me nervous that we'll get
>> something wrong (especially without braces, it's not immediately clear
>> that both sides are a single statement).
>>
>> I wonder if it would be more readable to do something like:
>>
>>   #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM < 0x070c00
>>   static const char *curl_easy_strerror(CURL *curl)
>>   {
>>       return "[error code unavailable; curl version too old]";
>>   }
>>   #endif
>>
>> Then callers don't have to individually deal with the ifdef. It does
>> mean that the user sees that kind-of ugly message, but maybe that is a
>> good thing. They know they need to upgrade curl to see more details.
>
> Yup, thanks for a very good suggestion.