From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:24:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] http authentication via prompts (with correct line lengths)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903121014010.18527@yvahk2.pbagnpgbe.fr>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460903120212x67081f69wb66364918714add7@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Mike Ralphson wrote:

>> 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.

>> (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