From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:59:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] http authentication via prompts (with correct line lengths)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903120956460.18527@yvahk2.pbagnpgbe.fr>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460903120153u5fdb58b6tf3027eea23673df0@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Mike Ralphson wrote:

> Elsewhere we seem to protect use of CURL_NETRC_OPTIONAL by checking for 
> LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070907. I have an ancient curl here 
> (curl-7.9.3-2ssl) which doesn't seem to have this option, so building next 
> is broken on AIX for me from this morning (c33976cb).
>
> Is there a specific minimum version of curl we want to continue supporting?

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

Perhaps this list can serve as some help:

 	http://curl.haxx.se/docs/releases.html

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

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