From: Mike Ralphson Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:12:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] http authentication via prompts (with correct line lengths) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2009/3/12 Daniel Stenberg : > 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? 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. > (spoiler: libcurl 7.9.3 is more than seven years old!) And still the release IBM package for AIX [1]. 8-( The summary of automatic builds (http://curl.haxx.se/auto/) is very nicely presented. Is that custom code? Thanks for curl, even the old versions! Mike [1] http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html