From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:34:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] imap-send: escape backslash in password
Message-ID: <xmqqzibcqhy9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170804212231.pl3uipcsujflcuha@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> That is fine by me. AFAIK, we already build the curl support by default
> when a sufficiently-advanced version of curl is available. So if there
> were feature-parity problems hopefully somebody would have reported it.
>
> I think the deprecation here can be relatively fast because we're not
> actually dropping support for any feature. We're just requiring that
> they install curl to get the same functionality (which might be
> inconvenient, but it's a heck of a lot less inconvenient than "there's
> no way to do what you want anymore").

Yeah, as long as imap-supporting libcurl is not too recent and are
available everywhere, we should be OK.

Thanks.