Re: Minimum libCurl version for git

From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2009, 11:24 UTC
Message-ID: <e2b179460903230424v1c98d73ci1f41918807fb2d5c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6uzg98v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

2009/3/20 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> We can have these two macro definitions on our side
>
>        #if curl older than 7.10.8
>        #define CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE
>        #endif
>
>        #if curl older than 7.9.7
>        #define CURLOPT_READDATA CURLOPT_INFILE
>        #endif
>
> for backward compatibility, while writing our code to the recent API by
> using CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE and CURLOPT_READDATA, and people with older
> curl would not have to suffer a bit.

See? That's why they pay you the big maintainer-bucks... 8-)

> Mike, I'd say we declare 7.9.3 as the floor and go from there.  That's
> your #3, I think.

Short patch series to follow, though maybe not today.

Mike